Sir Cliff Richard: BBC agrees to pay £850,000 legal costs
26 июля
10:08
2018
Image copyright Reuters The BBC has agreed to pay Sir Cliff Richard £850,000 within 14 days to cover his legal costs, following his privacy case against the corporation.
The singer had already been awarded £210,000 damages by a High Court judge who ruled that the BBC had infringed his privacy in its reporting of a police raid on his home in 2014.
The raid was part of an investigation into historical child sex allegations.
Sir Cliff was never charged or arrested.
The BBC is seeking leave to appeal against the judgment, made last week.
It wants to challenge the judge's findings, including that Sir Cliff had a right to privacy while a suspect in a police investigation - trumping the broadcaster's right to freedom of expression to publish his name and cover the raid.
