Who said after losing a libel case against Robert Maxwell, 'I've just given a fat cheque to a fat Czech'?
Ian Hislop aboard". The new editor, dismissive of society gossip, sacked both McKay and Dempster from the magazine without hesitation. As editor of "Private Eye", Ian Hislop is reputedly the most sued man in English legal history, although he is not involved in as many libel actions as he once was. A libel case was brought against "Private Eye" and Hislop in 1986 by the publisher Robert Maxwell after the magazine accused him of funding Labour leader Neil Kinnock's travel expenses as a means of gaining a peerage. After the case Hislop quipped: "I've just given a fat cheque to a fat
Private Eye to this day the magazine refers to the firm of solicitors as "Carter-Fuck". Robert Maxwell sued the magazine for the suggestion he looked like a criminal, and won a significant sum. Editor Hislop summarised the case: "I've just given a fat cheque to a fat Czech", and later claimed this was the only known example of a joke being told on "News at Ten". Sonia Sutcliffe sued after allegations made in January 1981 that she used her connection to her husband, the "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, to make money. She won £600,000 in damages in May 1989, a record at