Sentences with phrase «how libel laws»

Well - respected Mac developer Daniel Jalkut (MarsEdit, amongst others) heads in the opposite direction, explaining how libel laws might be considered in Vaughan and comiXology's actions in the whole matter.

Not exact matches

And the real estate tycoon's recent announcement about how he planned to «open up» U.S. libel laws if elected arguably also falls into this category.

Famodun further said the APC has concluded plans to sue Fani Kayode for libel and insisted that the Jonathan campaign spokesman needs to explain where and how he came about the video in a court of law.

This was the sort of case which showed up exactly how inadequate our libel laws are when confronted with rumour - mongering of this scale on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

In an earlier report on 10 December, the The Times noted how Britain's libel laws were also influencing the decisions of scientific journals, quoting British Medical Journal Editor Fiona Godlee:

Now, stop to think what this means about how the court will actually resolve whether Mann's hockey stick was a fraud, and you begin to see why the Supreme Court decided to clip the wings of libel law.

Given the UK libel laws how come no one has sent me a writ?

There are also lots of questions being raised around the traditional law and how it applies to claims related to new media — partly because Canada's Libel and Slander Act hasn't been updated in a long time and when it was written the Internet did not exist.

How would I feel about a client seeing me breaking bread with the same prosecutor or cop who is trying to get my client locked up, particularly in instances where I feel the prosecution is based on false evidence, an effort to obtain a disproportionately severe sentence, or a law that I feel should be stricken or heavily decriminalized in the first place (e.g., I want the legalization of marijuana, prostitution, gambling, criminal libel and obscenity and the heavy decriminalization of all other drugs)?

We reported last year on how the sheriff of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, relying on the state's old and constitutionally infirm criminal - libel law, had raided the house and seized the computers of a local man suspected of being responsible for a gadfly blog that had criticized the sheriff and other community figures.

The laws on defamation need buffering and redrafting to bring them into line with how easily libelling can occur now on a daily basis and which fundamentally, and by increments, undermines the law overall.