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\n<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to the Sun, police raided Clarke\u2019s Kensington home early on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
They reportedly spent five hours at the address, leaving with laptops and documents in hand.<\/p>\n
Clarke was reportedly questioned by police while in custody and has since been released.<\/p>\n
The Met Police is yet to comment on reports.<\/p>\n
One local told The Sun: \u201cA dog unit arrived at 7.30am and parked on the street further down from the address.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt 9am the officer went in with the dog and there were plain-clothes detectives also at the flat.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey here for hours before leaving with a plastic box with a laptop and other items in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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These reports come just days after Clarke was ordered to pay at least \u00a33 million of The Guardian publisher\u2019s legal costs after he pursued a \u201cfar-fetched\u201d and \u201cfalse case\u201d against the newspaper\u2019s reporting of allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n
He denies all allegations against him, and his lawyers previously said the newspaper had acted as the \u201cjudge, jury and executioner\u201d of his career.<\/p>\n
GNM defended its reporting as being both true and in the public interest and in a judgment last month, judge Mrs Justice Steyn agreed.<\/p>\n
At a High Court hearing last week, she said Clarke must pay \u00a33 million ahead of a detailed assessment into the total costs to be recovered, estimated to be above \u00a36 million.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cIt seems to me that the sum of \u00a33 million sought by the defendant is appropriate and no more than what ought to be reasonably ordered in this case.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is substantially lower than the defendant\u2019s likely level of recovery on detailed assessment and so in my judgment, it does allow for a suitably wide margin of error.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cThe claimant maintained a far-fetched and indeed a false case that the articles were not substantially true, by pursuing allegations of dishonesty and bad faith against almost all of the defendant\u2019s truth witnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noel Clarke arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, for a consequential hearing after losing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-160728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}