The allegations Woolas made were numerous. But the ones that featured in the court case was that 1) he was a liar over where he lived 2) he was smuggling illegal donations into the country and producing false accounts for the campaign 3) he was courting terrorist and extremists and backing those who made death threats. These were very specific allegations made in print. Emails released in the court case showed that Woolas' campaign had intended to use photos of "mad moslems" to make to "make the white folk angry". This in an area that has significant racial tensions and had riots 10 years ago. Astonishing behaviour. I don't think I will see another case like this in my lifetime becase a) even bad campaigns aren't usually quite so vicious b) the burden of proof is so high - it's not enough to prove they said it and that it is a lie, you have to prove that they KNEW it was a lie when they said it. This is normally a very difficult thing to do.