The appeal by the Sunday Times in the libel case taken by Mr Albert Reynolds is expected to resume at the High Court in London this morning. At the start of four days of evidence last week the court was told that the newspaper was appealing a legal issue of qualified privilege arising out of the former Taoiseach's action.
Last year Mr Reynolds won a retrial in the Court of Appeal after the newspaper unsuccessfully argued that it had qualified privilege when it published an article in November 1994, at the time of the collapse of the Fianna Fail-Labour coalition. In November 1996 a London High Court jury found that Mr Reynolds had been libelled, but awarded him zero damages, a figure which the judge later amended to one penny.