Leech’s libel award reduced to €1.25m

The Supreme Court has reduced a €1.87m libel award to communications consultant Monica Leech to €1.25m.

She had been awarded the €1.87m in 2009 by a High Court jury over a series of articles in 2004 in the Evening Herald, which is published by Independent Newspapers.

Yesterday, a three-judge Supreme Court, said it regarded the libel as serious and was substituting the jury’s award with a sum of €1.25m.