Website prevails after surgeon abandons second libel claim over MMR revelations

This page is research from an investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London and the UK's Channel 4 Television into a campaign linking the MMR children's vaccine with autism. | Go to part I: The Lancet scandal | Go to part II: The Wakefield factor

Between 31 January 2005 and 25 January 2007, this website, briandeer.com, was in jeopardy, due to a claim for libel, brought by Andrew Wakefield, utilising lawyers made available to him free of charge by the Medical Protection Society, which was also spending enormous sums of doctors' money in similar meritless actions against Channel 4 and Times Newspapers. Despite unlimited liability, however, Brian Deer refused to capitulate, and after one discontinuance, this notice, and compensation, followed