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Curtailing Tourism...Lord Lester is drawing up a defamation reform bill
Read more UK News at MelonFarmers.co.uk Based on article from business.timesonline.co.uk Lord Lester, the leading human rights barrister, is drawing up a defamation reform bill, which would prevent la… more →
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There is tourism, and there is libel tourism
wrote 1 week ago: Lord Phillips, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Is this not an important princip … more →
Cheeta Woods gags English media
wrote 3 weeks ago: Cheeta Woods has managed to gag English media from reporting on more of his transgressions. This is … more →
Curtailing Tourism...Lord Lester is drawing up a defamation reform bill
wrote 1 month ago: Read more UK News at MelonFarmers.co.uk Based on article from business.timesonline.co.uk Lord Lester … more →
Tourism Curtailed...Jack Straw sets out to reform UK libel laws
wrote 1 month ago: Read more UK News at MelonFarmers.co.uk Based on article from business.timesonline.co.uk Jack Straw … more →
Libel Tourists Flocking to Britain...Defamation cases increased by 11% in 2008
wrote 1 month ago: Read more UK News at MelonFarmers.co.uk Based on article from guardian.co.uk The number of defamatio … more →
Free Speech is not For Sale...Report from English PEN and Index on Censorship
wrote 1 month ago: Read more UK News at MelonFarmers.co.uk See report from libelreform.org See also Libel reform: The l … more →
Pariah Britain...US newspapers explain that libel tourism may lead to internet blocks to British Access
wrote 1 month ago: Read more UK News at MelonFarmers.co.uk Based on article from guardian.co.uk Britain’s reputat … more →
Are your taxes subsidising the libel tourism industry?
wrote 2 months ago: Yesterday I wrote about a discussion in Parliament on the use of “super-injunctions” to … more →
Why the case of superinjunctions and twits says so much more about free speech in the UK.
wrote 2 months ago: Well and truly gagged: freedom of speech in the UK? What else could we possibly be talking about at … more →
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wrote 3 months ago: Something completely off topic for this blog, to start – my uncle has a piece in Editor and Pu … more →
Laughable libel laws
wrote 3 months ago: I see the UK Government is finally looking at changing the draconian libel laws which date back to t … more →
Libel tourism bill in effect
wrote 6 months ago: House Bill (HB) 949, a measure relating to grounds for non-recognition of foreign defamation judgmen … more →
Libel Tourism: Taking a vacation from your First Amendment rights
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wrote 7 months ago: The New York Times weighed in Tuesday on “libel tourism” and advocated for the Senate bi … more →
Writing to my MP About the UK Libel Laws
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wrote 8 months ago: The libel laws in England? They’re broken. They’re not fit for purpose. Only the rich ca … more →
Specter re-introduces 'libel tourism' bill in Senate
wrote 10 months ago: The so-called “libel tourism” bill that was introduced in the Senate last year is back o … more →
Then change the laws
wrote 10 months ago: Geert Wilders, who was coming to Britain for a screening of his film Fitna in the House of Lords, wa … more →
UK push for Internet ratings, "cinema-style"
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wrote 1 year ago: The UK culture secretary Andy Burnham has recently spoken out about making the internet safer by ado … more →
Nadhmi Auchi -- What goes around ....
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wrote 1 year ago: Barack Obama, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko (l to r) RBO last posted more than a month ago, on November 1 … more →
Libel Tourism Bill
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wrote 1 year ago: The House of Representatives passed the libel tourism bill I mentioned in a post about a month ago, … more →
