Daily Mail seeks more time to submit evidence in Shahbaz Sharif defamation case
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Saturday May 08, 2021
LONDON: The lawyers for Mail on Sunday and reporter David Rose have approached the London High Court seeking more time to file a defence in the defamation case brought against them by former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif and Imran Ali Yousaf, his son-in-law.
Court sources have confirmed that lawyers for the Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publishers of
Daily Mail and
Mail on Sunday, sought four more months to gather evidence from Pakistan.
Justice Sir Matthew Nicklin at the London High Court had set a timetable in the first week of February 2021 asking the paper to submit the evidence by the end of April 2021. Last week, the lawyers for the paper made an application to the court seeking two more months.