Claims extracted
19
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
11%
2 of 19 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
64/100
Evening Standard's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
63
Entertainment
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
One woman described her alleged encounter with Walliams, when she was 15, as a “sexual assault”.
asserted
she → describe → assault
The allegations against him were made public after an extraordinary High Court battle.
asserted
allegations → make → battle
He brought the legal action against Independent Television News (ITN), which produces news programmes for ITV, Channel 4, Good Morning Britain and Channel 5, and Guardian News and Media (GNM), publisher of The Guardian.
During a two-day trial in late October, the High Court in London was told by lawyers for the media organisations that the allegations they wanted to report involved the man’s alleged “abuse of power and status” to contact young women and try to engage in “inappropriate and exploitative sexual activities”.
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they → bring → activities
Lawyers for Walliams, who could not be named, argued that the broadcast and publication of the claims against the TV star should not be allowed because of a risk that he would take his own life, after two previous suicide attempts.
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he → name → attempts
However, Mr Justice Nicklin dismissed the injunction bid last Tuesday.
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Nicklin → dismiss → bid
He said: “The court did not determine whether the allegations, or any of them, were true, and the dismissal of the claim does not amount to approval of any publication the defendants may decide to make.”
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defendants → say → publication
He added the man would remain anonymous to allow any appeal bids to be lodged but this needed to happen by 4.30pm this Monday.
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this → add → 4.30pm
No appeal was made.
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appeal → make → ?
Mr Justice Nicklin also told how the man had repeatedly said he intended to take his own life if the allegations were published, and that this must be taken seriously.
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this → tell → life
He added these statements did not “establish that suicide is inevitable or that treatment cannot reduce the risk”.
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treatment → add → risk
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In his full, 52-page judgment, the judge explained: “The injunction would not treat the claimant’s underlying psychiatric condition or eliminate his elevated baseline risk.
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injunction → read → risk
“The evidence does not identify a point at which publication would become safe merely through the passage of time.
asserted
publication → identify → time
“The relief sought would therefore be of uncertain and potentially indefinite duration.”
asserted
relief → seek → duration
Sara Mansoori KC, for Walliams, had stressed that he denies the allegations of wrongdoing and that publication “would have a potentially fatal impact”.
asserted
publication → stress → impact
She told the court in October: “The only reason they would not be fatal is because the claimant would be locked up and prevented from his desire to end his life.”
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claimant → tell → life
The barrister also said the claimant “has no intention of returning to public life”.
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claimant → say → life
Gavin Millar KC, for ITN and GNM, said the case risks “dragging judges into assessing the causes of suicidal ideation, which are for professionals and not for a judge”.
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which → say → judge
He added: “The obligation falls on the hospital to keep him safe, and that’s that.”
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that → add → him
He later said: “Plainly, the proposed publication would make a valuable contribution to a debate of public importance, about men using their power to be able to misconduct themselves against women in that area of society.”
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men → say → society
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