Esther Baker has been found to have defamed former MP John Hemming by Mrs Justice Steyn in the High Court. Her allegations were found to be “untrue”. She has been found to have engaged in a sustained campaign of racist harassment against a child abuse victim, by the County Court. In both cases lifelong restraining Orders were made. In both cases I offered some legal support to Ms Baker’s opponents. Now, I feel Esther Baker and her friend Dr Jacqui Dillon have behaved inappropriately towards me and I have commenced a claim for defamation and harassment. The Claim has now been reviewed by a High Court Master and issued. Service was effected today.
Image of the top of a letter from the court enclosing the issued claim forms.
As the Defendants are litigants in person it is important to give them as much time as possible to consider the matter. Therefore, I ensured that the Claim Form and other documents were hand delivered to Dr Jacqui Dillon’s home today so she could contemplate her defence over the Bank Holiday weekend. I also sent Esther Baker’s copy of the proceedings by registered post. Courtesy copies of the claim and response pack have been delivered by email also. To prove delivery and that there was no impropriety, the delivery to Dr Dillon was videoed.
Extract from the video of delivery to Dr Dillon’s Home. House number blurred out.
Readers are reminded that my claim is yet unproven and no court has made any decision. The Defendants have time to enter their defences. The fact that both Defendants are seriously mentally ill, the fact that I am the third person to sue Ms Baker and the fact that she has lost all her other cases to date does not mean they will lose this one – although it does not in any way bode well for them.
Sam it was very kind of you to make such an effort to ensure Dr Jacqui Dillon got her paperwork in time for the weekend.
You are a good and decent man. (Sensible to video though to prove you did not do anything bad).
Her contributions on Twitter are vile. She really deserves to be sued especially after RTE exposed her for wrongly accusing that former homeless man.
Yes I am all heart. 🙂
Can you please investigate her unproven claims of childhood abuse? They need to be forensically torn apart.
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Esther Baker is making weird tweets. You served her today, right? Do you think it is connected?
https://twitter.com/Esther9982/status/1264243145325400065
https://archive.is/dZ2Eq
https://twitter.com/Esther9982/status/1264256295005294592
https://archive.is/SxmhQ
Yes. She does that a lot. She keeps writing these little hintitty-hint-hinting tweets that her opponents have messed up / are under police investigation / are lying / face the abyss. She has been doing it for years. She did it in the Hemming case and was bankrupted on costs. She did it to the child abuse victim and … was Ordered to pay them damages of £12,500. It was actually found to be harassment. She currently either owes or has coming ~40-50K of damages and costs Orders that are not incorporated into the current bankruptcy so she will be made bankrupt again some time after October 15th this year unless her bankruptcy is lengthened.
She sent me an email a week-and-half-ago, 13/05/2020, 18:12 stating – “You have not even been given permission from the court to bring the proceedings . I doubt you will be able to due to there not being any reasonable grounds for bringing this case.” The sealed forms turned up yesterday having been checked by a Master (procedural judge) and approved. She keeps hinting John or I am going to be arrested but the police have got so annoyed they have actually done a search and no police force in the country is investigating me.
Her behaviour does not seem well to me, but we put it to her NHS Trust and they have taken the view that she has capacity so she has to bear responsibility for it. I am dubious – her behaviour is clearly maladaptive. She does not learn from her mistakes she just keeps doing the same thing over and over again. When I sent her a police officer’s email confirming I was not under investigation she actually continued to try to hint at it in the email thread. Bear in mind that the last time she did that she had to pay £12.5K damages.
There is a saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
The whole of Liverpool is a better place for this lockdown. Bakers confinement must be bliss for anyone in her immediate environs. Thank God for small mercies.
As for her alleged “abuse”-I know of not one human who believes her version of events. Years of perpetuating of different stories involving different people have proven her bile to be a skip full of fabrications. Her online persona is that of a putrid rat.
Question: What happens if she gets top solicitors? What happens then my son? Eh? What then Sammy?
When starting a libel claim, you always have to assume that the other side will obtain representation. People who try on bad claims on the assumption of settlement often get a nasty shock. There are a lot of top firms that will represent people in that case pro-bono or no-win-no-fee. In this case, Dillon and Baker have no announced representation. However, I always risk-assess on hope-for-the-best-prepare-for-the-worst, assuming the other side will get the best lawyer in England. I never file proceedings (or advise clients to file) except when the case is strong. Always. Assume. A. Full. Defence. We will likely find out in the next 12 days. If they have lawyers I will either find out with the Acknowledgement or Defence, or they will write me a letter most likely late on a Friday.