Sunday Times: Jack Straw pledges action to end libel tourism
Sunday, 22 November 2009, 10:56
"The justice secretary says the large legal fees involved in defamation cases in English courts are jeopardising freedom of speech, potentially curbing vital debate by scientists, academics and journalists."
Times Online: Libel tourists flock to ‘easy’ UK courts
Sunday, 1 November 2009, 12:16
"John Mardas, a Greek citizen and former associate of the Beatles, is fighting a case in the British courts against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune over articles that he claims falsely represented him as a charlatan. Just 31 people read the relevant articles on the internet in England. The New York Times only sold 177 copies of its newspaper with the disputed article in England, while it was not published in the International Herald Tribune in this country, according to the defendants."
TheyWorkForYou: Westminster Hall debate 17 December
Saturday, 20 December 2008, 13:40
Denis MacShane: "The practice of libel tourism as it is known—the willingness of British courts to allow wealthy foreigners who do not live here to attack publications that have no connection with Britain—is now an international scandal. It shames Britain and makes a mockery of the idea that Britain is a protector of core democratic freedoms."
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 16:42
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A important case with major implications for US journalists sued under English libel law is working its way through the US courts, but few people are paying any attention to it…
Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 16:38
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"New York [state]’s highest court decided Thursday a state law can’t help a Manhattan author block a libel verdict brought against her in [the High Court in] London by a Saudi billionaire over her book ‘Funding Evil’"
