Sentences with phrase «into libel laws»

Sunder - on your final point, PEN and Index on Censorship are about to publish the report in our inquiry into libel laws.

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.

The story of philo «Semitism is not presented as an alternative way of considering the modern Jewish experience: indeed, as the Rubinsteins show, it arose in large part in response to worldwide persecution and violence against Jews» from the infamous Damascus «blood libel,» to the institution of anti «Jewish laws in Italy, to pogroms in Russia, to the Dreyfus case, and on into the Nazi era.

Perhaps, if and when Lord Lester's Libel Bill gets passed into law some people will follow Corporal Jones» advice «Don't panic!».

Plans to reform Britain's arcane libel laws have been thrown into doubt after the House of Lords last night approved amendments introduced to the Defamation Bill by the film producer Lord Puttnam - Independent

When one steps outside the bounds of civility and collegiality, descending into hyperbolic rant, name - calling and unsupportable accusations, one opens themselves to receiving the same back again, and to the force of laws on libel and slander.

U.S. President Obama today signed into law the «Speech Act,» which is aimed at protecting U.S. writers from foreign libel judgments from jurisdictions that, in the opinion of a U.S. court, do not adequately protect freedom of speech.

The employers» organizations began to act on this and from the 1830s the state entered into protracted negotiations with the industry of the laws of libel.

At common law, defamation actions were divided into two categories, libel and slander.

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.

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