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Could Baby Reindeer ‘stalker’ Fiona Harvey win lawsuit against Netflix?

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The woman suing Netflix for defamation over its hit programme Baby Reindeer has hurdles to navigate in a California court but she could succeed, legal experts predict.

Executives at the US streaming company confirmed this week that they would defend “vigorously” a $170 million defamation claim issued by Fiona Harvey, who claims that she was easily identifiable as a stalker character in the show.

Netflix said it would “stand by” the right of the programme’s writer, Richard Gadd, “to tell his story”.

‘Stalker’ from Baby Reindeer sues Netflix for $170m

But a prominent media lawyer who is familiar with defamation law in California, the state where Harvey’s claim has been issued, said that Netflix made a “fundamental error” by describing Baby Reindeer as “a

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