Competing defamation claims between Van Morrison and former Northern Ireland health minister Robin Swann will be heard together by a single jury, a High Court judge in Belfast has ruled.
Mr Swann sued for slander after the singer criticised him in front of an audience at Belfast’s Europa Hotel in June 2021. The comments came after the musician’s gigs at the venue were cancelled due to a ban on live music imposed as part of pandemic restrictions. Morrison took to the stage and directed criticism at Mr Swann, with video footage of the incident subsequently going viral.Sinéad Hussey: ‘We treat miscarriages as a blip or something that’s easily forgotten’‘You’re not Irish.
Opposing the application, counsel for Morrison disputed suggestions that the two cases involved common issues of fact and law. It was submitted that the actions relate to different publications on different dates.
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