Dr Zoë Harcombe PhD and Dr Malcolm Kendrick have secured a full apology, substantial damages and their legal costs from the publisher of The Mail on Sunday, as their long-running libel claims come to a successful conclusion.

The case related to articles published in March 2019, containing allegations that Dr Harcombe and Dr Kendrick had made knowingly false statements about the cholesterol-lowering drug, statins; and that they had thereby caused large numbers of people not to take statins, causing harm to public health.

A statement in open Court, read today by Dominic Garner on behalf of Dr Harcombe and Dr Kendrick, recorded that these allegations were and are completely untrue, as The Mail on Sunday has now acknowledged in agreeing now to resolve the claims. The Court heard that the two Claimants in fact “have always been passionate believers in evidence-based science and open scientific debate, who defend the principle that impartiality and objectivity are called for in the evaluation of scientific evidence, including in relation to the use and prescription of statins”.

Dr Harcombe and Dr Kendrick were represented by Claire Gill and Dominic Garner of Carter-Ruck and by Adrienne Page KC and Godwin Busuttil of 5RB.

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