Typist faces £100,000 libel bill after Twitter rant Lawyers warned her that she could face fees amounting to £100,000 if she fights the claim. Mrs Kemp returned to Twitter to seek support and was contacted by Robert Dougans, a lawyer who successfully defended another landmark libel case. Campaigners including the Libel Reform Campaign have also pledged their support for Mrs Kemp. Well-wishers have donated £2,000 to pay her initial court fees to lodge her defence. Mrs Kemp said: "It was only a small amount of money that we argued over but because I was broke and stressed I took to Twitter and went on a bit of a rant. There were a lot of emails between us before I took to Twitter. He said that I was damaging his reputation and that it was all done maliciously. As soon as I received the lawyer's letter I panicked that they were going to really clobber me with this. I am not used to freelance work and didn't understand there is a culture of late payments and its not uncommon to have to wait months to receive your fee. The case follows that of Sally Bercow, the wife of the Commons speaker, who is being sued for libel by Lord McAlpine, the former Conservative party treasurer, over a tweet that he claims linked him to false allegations of child abuse. Mrs Kemp has vowed to fight the libel claim. She added: "I'm a bit feisty and very determined and if I'm going down then I'm going to come up with a bang. I can't even begin to describe the stress that it has put me under. Mr Dougans represented journalist Simon Singh in his successful libel battle against the British Chiropractic Association in 2010. Singh was sued by the BCA for a piece he wrote in the Guardian's comment pages and the case became a free speech cause célèbre. Scientists, celebrities and campaigners lined up to condemn the British libel laws and argue that Singh had a right to express his opinion in print.