David Eady Appeal for his conduct during the 2009 libel case involving Richard Desmond and Tom Bower. Eady disallowed several pieces of evidence against Desmond which the Appeal Court ruled were clearly relevant to the case. The Court of Appeal judges ruled that Eady's decision was "plainly wrong" and "might lead to a miscarriage of justice". After hearing the evidence, the jury found in favour of Bower. In December 2009, Eady commented in "The Guardian" on some of this criticism, saying that "The media have nowhere to vent their frustrations other than through personal abuse of the particular judge who happens to
Tom Bower law at the London School of Economics, before working as a barrister for the National Council of Civil Liberties. In 1970, Bower joined the BBC as a researcher on the programme "24 Hours" before becoming a reporter on "Panorama". He was a producer on "Panorama" from 1975 until 1987. He left the BBC in 1995. Bower is married to Veronica Wadley, former editor of the London "Evening Standard", and has four children. Bower's second book was "Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyon" (1984) which documented Klaus Barbie's war crimes during World War II as head of the Gestapo in Lyon,