Sentences with phrase «for libel tourism»
The legislation was prompted, as the BBC report says, by a libel suit against American writer Rachel Ehrenfeld who was sued in England, a notorious destination for libel tourism, because of a book on the funding of terrorism.
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«The UK has not only become the world capital for libel tourism.
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«New York is the world's crossroads, so what happens out there — in this case, the U.K.'s libel tourism problem and its misuse by terrorism's apologists and facilitators — affects us here, and it's nice to know that our defense of free speech here in New York is likewise having an impact out there as pressure builds in the U.K. to cease being a haven for libel terrorists,» the assemblyman said.
The Defamation Act 2013 came into force on 1 January 2014, billed as providing enhanced protection for publishers and website operators, and with measures to curb trivial claims and «libel tourism».
London may still be for the moment the «libel tourism» capital of the world for affronted folk, but Paris has its strong points, too, if the case of Professor Joseph H. H. Weiler is anything to go by.