Boies Schiller Flexner partner Prateek Swaika was quoted by the Financial Times and City AM in articles about President Donald Trump’s recent threat to sue the BBC for $1 billion over the misleading edit of its Panorama program.
Prateek told the Financial Times that “the jurisdictional hurdle of proving Florida viewership of a U.K. broadcast may not be straightforward,” and he stated to City AM that the “threat against the BBC isn’t just another media skirmish—it’s a masterclass in weaponising cross-border defamation law.” He further explained that the “case hinges on a fundamental transatlantic legal divide: U.K. defamation law favors claimants with its ‘serious harm’ standard and defendant-carried burden of proof, while U.S. law shields media through nearly insurmountable ‘actual malice’ requirements for public figures,” adding that his “legal team is exploiting this divide by threatening Florida litigation.”
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