JUNE 15, 2006
Well-suited
Tom Rubython and Business F1 magazine are facing yet another legal battle, with the next case asking for libel damages of more than $550,000.
Tom Rubython and Business F1 magazine are facing yet another legal battle, with the next case asking for libel damages of more than $550,000. The suit is coming from FIA director of publicity Richard Woods, who is claiming damages and aggravated damages for alleged libel in an article titled The Propagandist
. Woods is also seeking an injunction to ban repetition of the allegations.
The magazine has been taking a legal hammering of late with a ruling again it in August last year in which FIA consultant Alan Donnelly won damages of $15,000 and costs of $210,000. In May Tony Purnell, the former head of Jaguar Racing, won another lawsuit with damages of $138,000 and costs of $386,000.