Sentences with phrase «in a libel case»
Later he earned such verdicts as $ 26,535,000 against Penthouse in a libel case for Miss Wyoming and successfully defended Sheriff Ed Cantrell in the famous Rock Springs, Wyoming murder case where Cantrell allegedly shot a narcotics officer in the back of a police vehicle before the narcotics officer pulled his weapon on Cantrell.
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It would also bar Lord Archer, who was ejected from the House in 2000 after being jailed for perjury in a libel case.
The constitutional issue arose from the District Court's view that solicitude for the First Amendment required a more hospitable judicial attitude toward granting summary judgment in a libel case.
Dr Evan Harris, who pushed the amendment, told politics.co.uk the party wanted to alter the burden of proof in libel cases so that it rested on the claimant, not the defendant.
The fact Starmer mentions Thomas» deletion of the message indicated that — as in a libel case — moves to delete and apologise for messages after they are posted will be recognised by prosecutors.
Newspapers benefited from the government's decision not to implement a rule that would require publishers to meet all the legal costs of a claimant in a libel case, even if the claimant was unsuccessful, if the publisher was not a member of an officially recognised regulator.
I have represented judges and other public officials in libel cases and they are held to a high bar of having to prove actual malice by clear and convincing evidence and they should be.
He has appeared in libel cases for local UK authorities and for South Africa's largest circulation newspaper on a regular basis.
More surprising was their award of # 500,000 damages, the largest sum ever awarded in a libel case.
Jaron Lewis, partner in media law at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, says: «The costs in libel cases have been out of control for some time.
As to why many of us were inclined to disbelieve Mitchell's vehement denials, we don't have to cast our minds back too far to remember other vehement denials from egotistical politicians — Jonathan Aitken (the Ritz in Paris), Jeffrey Archer (perjury in a libel case), Neil Hamilton (cash for questions and the Ritz in Paris again) and more recently Chris Huhne (perverting the course of justice over speeding points).
Unfortunately for defamation victims, Google recently announced that it would no longer honor every court order or judgment in libel cases; the operative word being «every.»
After the Jackson Report was published last month justice secretary Jack Straw announced proposals to introduce a 10 % cap on conditional fee agreements (CFAs) in libel cases.