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| | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v. News Group Newspapers Ltd |
 | | In such circumstances, and in order to save the possible expense of a new trial, I see no objection to his inviting the jury to say what sum they would fix as compensation and what additional sum, if any, they would award if they were entitled to give exemplary damages. |
 | | In the present action the judge was clearly justified, in the circumstances in which the defendant, in breach of the plaintiffs copyright, handed these photographs to the press knowing the use to which they were going to be put, in awarding substantial and heavy damages of a punitive nature. |
 | | In fixing damages under section 96, I have regard to the fact that the photograph is immediately topical, that it is an apt illustration to a story concentrating on the terror supposedly felt by Ms Metcalfe, that it is prominent and clear. |
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