{"id":799,"date":"2013-06-24T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=799"},"modified":"2013-06-22T23:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T04:25:21","slug":"sally-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/06\/sally-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Mail Forced To Pay \u00a3125,000 to Psychic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallymorgan.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/psychic-sally-otr-2013-300.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0was forced to <a title=\"Sally Morgan Wins Her Fight For Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sallymorgan.tv\/sally-morgan-wins-her-fight-for-justice\/\">pay <s>fraudster<\/s> psychic\u00a0<strong>Sally Morgan<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a3125,000<\/a> after she insisted for a year and a half that she wasn&#8217;t conning people (!):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sally Morgan is overjoyed to have won her libel action against the Daily Mail and to have restored her reputation and professional integrity. After an 18 month investigation into the work that Sally does, the <strong>newspaper was forced to make a full apology to Sally and pay her \u00a3125,000 in damages<\/strong>; one of the most substantial libel payments in recent history. Sally\u2019s legal team, led by Graham Atkins of Atkins Thomson, and David Sherborne of counsel, describe the victory as an extremely significant result.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bought this libel action against The Daily Mail not to be a spokesperson for mediums and mediumship, nor for financial gain, but for the simple reason of principle. <strong>I have done nothing wrong and deserve to have that acknowledged. I have never cheated<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I&#8217;d love to know, if she&#8217;s being\u00a0straightforward, why won&#8217;t she go for the <a title=\"One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/site\/index.php\/1m-challenge.html\">James Randi Challenge<\/a> and the\u00a0<a title=\"Sisyphus Prize: 1\u2019000.000 \u20ac\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2012\/10\/09\/sisyphus-prize\/\">Sisyphus Prize<\/a>? That&#8217;s the best way of proving she&#8217;s not cheating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Daily Mail\u00a0was forced to pay fraudster psychic\u00a0Sally Morgan\u00a0\u00a3125,000 after she insisted for a year and a half that she wasn&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,242,243,52],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charlatan","tag-daily-mail","tag-psychic","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}