Spain: : Supreme Court defamation judgment concerning popular Spanish TV show
Pedro Letai · IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory · 2015
On 15 September 2015, the Spanish Supreme Court upheld the decision from the Court of Appeal, which found three members of the panel of speakers from the popular TV programme Salvame responsible for defamation, after insulting Spanish socialite Carmen Lomana on air. The defendants will have to compensate Lomana with EUR 120 000 in total (EUR 60 000, EUR 30 000 and EUR 30 000 respectively)