Overview
- Ms Justice Mary Rose Gearty approved service of plenary summonses on Sky News UK and Sky News Ltd outside Ireland, with a further summons to issue to Sky News Ireland.
- McGregor’s counsel told the court the documents would be issued by tomorrow as the one-year limit for defamation actions expires on Saturday, 22 November 2025.
- According to McGregor’s affidavit, a Sky reporter called out to him, “you are a rapist,” after the civil verdict, and those words were broadcast and posted online.
- The alleged defamation followed a civil jury finding that McGregor assaulted Nikita Hand by raping her, with damages of almost €250,000 and an order to pay substantial legal costs.
- McGregor lost his appeal in the Court of Appeal and is awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision on whether it will hear a further appeal of the civil finding.