The case of Max Mosley v The News of the World was heard by a judge sitting solo. The Judge found for Mosley.

The case could have been heard by judge and jury.

Perhaps the Screws, in defeat, feel that a jury might have come to another conclusion.

The Guardian, not a natural home for supporters of powerful motor-racing moguls conducted a poll among its readers, worded simply:

Max Mosley won his case against the News of the World today. The trial was held without a jury, so the decision rested solely with the judge, Mr Justice Eady. If there had been a jury do you think the outcome would have been the same?

The result:

Yes: 75.1%

No: 24.9%

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Paul Dacre’s conference on Thursday, once the Max Mosley v News of the World judgment had been handed down, must have been as rambunctious as they come. He ordered an all-out 5-page, sixteen gun broadside against the judge in the case, Mr Justice Eady and all he stood for. The judge is to be the victim of a campaign that will see him intimidated and harried until he loses the urge to make judgments that don’t match the thinking of the Nation’s greatest middle-England organ, and the thoughts of Chairman Dacre.

Star scribbler, witty, biting Quentin Letts was told to lead the attack.

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