Dale Vince to get damages from Daily Mail publisher over misleading article

Court of appeal rules Labour donor suffered ‘obvious injustice’ over use of his photo with headline referring to different man The green energy entrepreneur and Labour donor Dale Vince is in line to receive damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail after claiming it used his picture to mislead millions of readers. Vince, who has given more than £5m to Labour over several years, took legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over an article, published in June 2023, headlined “Labour repays £100,000 to sex pest donor”. The donor referred to in the headline was not Vince, but his picture accompanied the article. The pictures showed Vince holding a Just Stop Oil banner. The high court initially threw out Vince’s data protection claim against the newspaper over the article. That decision has been overturned by the court of appeal. The Mail’s headline actually referred to the fact that Labour was repaying money to a former donor, Davide Serra. In 2002, an employment tribunal heard that Serra had made sexist comments to a female colleague, which were found to amount to unlawful harassment related to sex. The pictures of Vince were published in print, where the headline r