On 16 January, the Guardian Media section featured a story on the defamation claim brought by the BAFTA nominated composer Simon Boswell against the Daily Telegraph.

Seddons acted for Mr Boswell in his libel claim against the Telegraph who reported on a common assault charge brought against him following a complaint by his former partner Lysette Anthony. The contents of the Telegraph article consisted of evidence given at the trial and would therefore normally have been protected by the defence of Absolute Privilege (so that the publisher could not ordinarily be sued).

However the report failed to mention that the case ended that day and that Mr Boswell was acquitted with a costs order in his favour. Instead the article ended with the words "the trial continues".

In the Guardian article, Marvin Simons head of Disputes at Seddons, stated that "Neither I nor, so far as I am aware, the Telegraph could find any precedent for this and it seems to be a first".

Private Eye has also now commented on the case (the result of which was that the Telegraph paid Mr Boswell over £20,000 in damages as well as paying his legal costs). According to Private Eye’s Byline Bandits column the concluding words of the Telegraph article "the trial continues" are "now being lamented at the paper as "the most expensive three words in legal history"!