This weekend we produced an edition of The Student, which would have been released on Tuesday October 21.
The newspaper was due to contain an article about a motion entitled ‘Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) Off Campus’, which was going to be heard at Thursday’s Student Council.
The motion has since been removed from the Student Council’s agenda; the SWP have argued that the motion was defaming.
... To publish the paper with this article, given these claims, would now put The Student at severe risk of legal action from the SWP, since the motion is no longer going to be read.
In the event of any legal action, The Student's editors would be liable for any and all damages and legal costs.
When we sent the paper to the printers, this motion was still due to be read, and thus, we were reporting on the contents of a public meeting.
The Student’s editors have removed the page containing the article from each paper manually. We will be distributing the paper around campus as normal with the article in concern removed.
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