Editing Victor Lewis-Smith (section)

==Legal==
In June 2006, the television chef [[Gordon Ramsay]], his production company and his producer accepted an out-of-court settlement of £75,000 from [[Associated Newspapers]], after an article in London's ''[[Evening Standard]]'' written by Lewis-Smith alleged that Ramsay had faked television scenes and installed an incompetent chef. Ramsay said at the time, "We have never done anything in a cynical, fake way." However, a year later, Channel 4 admitted that a scene in another of Ramsay's programmes had been faked, and apologised to viewers.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jul/16/broadcasting.channel4 | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Ben | last=Dowell | title=Channel 4 says sorry for Ramsay spear-fishing 'fake' | date=16 July 2007}}</ref>

On 28 July 2006, [[hypnotist]] [[Paul McKenna]] successfully sued the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' for [[libel]] over articles written by Lewis-Smith from 1997 alleging that McKenna had deliberately misled the public with a fake PhD, having obtained the qualification from the non-accredited [[James Kirk diploma mills|LaSalle University]] in the United States, whose principal had since been imprisoned for making misleading claims about the status of degrees he handed out to candidates.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5223454.stm | work=BBC News | title=McKenna wins 'fake degree' case | date=28 July 2006 | access-date=9 April 2010}}</ref> He later accepted damages of £25,000.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.5rb.com/news/paul-mckenna-suffers-costs-loss/ | work=5RB.com | title=Paul McKenna suffers costs loss | date=16 July 2007 | access-date=12 July 2020}}</ref>