Six Months of Deliberate Defiance: Andrew Drummond's Publication of at Least 10 New Articles After Service of the 25-Page Letter of Claim

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Legally, the single most important paper in the corpus for establishing malice. The 25-page Cohen Davis Pre-Action Protocol Letter of Claim was served on Drummond on 13 August 2025 — personally, via recorded delivery, with evidence of acceptance. The Letter particularised every actionable statement across the then-published articles, identified each as indefensible under UK defamation law, and invited retraction and apology. Drummond did not respond substantively. Instead, over the subsequent six months he published at least 10 additional articles containing the same claims the Letter had flagged as indefensible — and added new ones. Under UK law, continued publication after specific notice of falsity is strong evidence of malice and reckless disregard for truth, which defeats most statutory defences (honest opinion, publication on a matter of public interest, qualified privilege). The paper provides the full chronology with URLs, publication dates, and a claim-by-claim table mapping each post-notice article to the specific Letter paragraph it ignored.