Sentences with phrase «libel action»

The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) has abandoned its controversial libel action against science writer Simon Singh.

Represented Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. in libel action brought by NFL football player.

Brett said: «The object of the exercise is to make the cost of libel actions infinitely cheaper.

The Police Federation of England and Wales has said it is «pleased» Mr Justice Mitting has ruled in PC Toby Rowland's favour after Andrew Mitchell lost his High Court libel action over the «Plebgate incident».

Former Government chief whip Andrew Mitchell has been ordered to pay interim costs of # 300,000 after he lost his High Court libel action over the «Plebgate» incident.

Finally, it was Mr Dacre himself who in April 2005 hailed Eady J's decision in Miller v Associated Newspapers (a failed libel action by the police officer who investigated Neil and Christine Hamilton for alleged rape) as a significant victory for the freedom of the press, since the judge had confirmed that the subject of the Mail's articles was a matter of legitimate public interest.

David Allen Green suggests that there is an increasing trend towards complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners threatening libel action...

Climate modeller Andrew Weaver launches libel action in Canada for publishing «grossly irresponsible falsehoods» By David Adam One of the world's leading climate scientists has launched a libel lawsuit against a Canadian newspaper for publishing articles that he says «poison» the debate -LSB-...]

The government has dropped Lord Leveson's controversial proposal to make newspapers pay both sides» legal costs for libel actions, whether they won or lost in court.

Much of the coverage of Private Eye's fiftieth anniversary has emphasised its gossip and investigative journalism, as well as its appearances in various libel actions.

Andrew Mitchell would have avoided the personally and financially devastating verdict in his High Court libel action if he had shown a «scintilla of humility», his fellow Conservative MP Michael Fabricant has tweeted.

This hurdle will immediately block trivial libel actions and discourage bullies who merely want to scare off researchers or journals.

The resulting libel action ground through the courts until it finally went to trial last fall, with 7.5 days of evidence heard over a period of more than three weeks — a brutal and expensive waste of time that would be a significant deterrent for almost anyone hoping to defend a reputation against the climate denial assault.

Thanks John G. Ivor Shapiro of The Canadian Journalism Project pointed that out just last week, that fear libel action is «a useful corrective against recklessness.»

In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, supra, a city official instituted a civil libel action against four clergymen and the New York Times.

The defeat of Andrew Mitchell's libel action against News Group Newspapers over the «Plebgate» incident is a «vindication» for The Sun and its journalists, the newspaper's managing editor has said.

Michael Coyle, solicitor advocate at Lawdit Solicitors, says: «The judge commented that when considered in the context of defamation law, therefore, communications of this kind were much more akin to slander than to the usual, more permanent kind of communications found in libel actions.»

Former Government chief whip Andrew Mitchell has lost his High Court libel action over the «Plebgate» incident.

Former Government chief whip Andrew Mitchell has said he is «bitterly disappointed» to have lost his High Court libel action over the «Plebgate» incident.

Former cabinet minister Tim Yeo has lost his libel action against the Sunday Times, with the judge...

The 65 - year - old was jailed in 1999 for perjury during a libel action but has today told the Observer of his return to front - line politics to head the CSJ study.

Former cabinet minister Tim Yeo has lost his libel action against the Sunday Times, with the judge comparing him to a fish wriggling on a hook.

Lord Ashcroft settled a libel action against the Times newspaper out of court in 1999, which forms part of the subject of his book Dirty politics, Dirty times.

Former Conservative MP Louise Mensch has strongly criticised a judge's decision to find against Andrew Mitchell in his libel action over The Sun's reporting of the «Plebgate» incident, describing it as an «appalling miscarriage of justice».

Representing Mr Mitchell at the High Court, James Price QC today opened the Sutton Coldfield MP's libel action against News Group Newspapers (NGN) over the story.

The police officer at the centre of the so - called «Plebgate» incident has accepted # 80,000 damages in settlement of his libel action against former Government chief whip Andrew Mitchell.

While Mr Mitchell has been ordered to pay initial costs of # 300,000 after his libel action defeat, as ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen reports, it is estimated the «Plebgate» case could end up costing him # 3 million.

Former government chief whip Mitchell lost his libel action against News Group Newspapers over The Sun's reporting of the «Plebgate» incident.

Andrew Mitchell looked «grim - faced» throughout the verdict as he learned he had lost his «Plebgate» libel action, ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen has tweeted.

Mr Cruddas was dismissed from the role after the Sunday Times reported that he was charging # 250,000 to meet Mr Cameron but has since won a libel action against the newspaper.

Several high - profile lawsuits have prompted prominent researchers and U.K. groups such as Index on Censorship and Sense about Science to complain that U.K. libel laws — and the high costs of defending a libel action — are forcing researchers and scientific journals to censor or edit academic material.

One well - documented clash between science and censorship is in the use of libel actions to try to silence scientists and science writers; the journal Nature and Richard Dawkins are among the most recent to face suits.

The so - called «journal» Energy & Environment tries to intimidate RealClimate with the threat of a libel action.

But it was an outrage to see the same judge let Ball so casually off the hook, by dismissing a libel action that had been brought by University of Victoria climate scientist and B.C. Green Party leader Dr. Andrew Weaver.

Perhaps the climate alarmists are right, however, the important point is that there must be a free and open discussion, which is not chilled by libel action.

Both Kay and the newspaper subsequently settled a libel action against them.

[8] The subject matter of this libel action was quite complex and was important to both of the parties...

But now, as Professor Bainbridge and many other bloggers report, another law firm, this time Nashville firm King and Barlow, has drawn the ire of other bloggers for threatening a libel action against blogger Kat Coble unless she removes something that offended one of the firm's clients.

The post says that the Vancouver, Canada, firm Lawson Lundell responded to the homeless man's request for legal representation in a libel action with an e-mail asking for the retainer and advising that he would be charged $ 400 an hour for the services of a senior lawyer.

The respondent, Conrad Black, filed six libel actions in the Ontario Superior Court against the ten appellants, who are directors, advisors and a vice-president of Hollinger International, Inc. («International»).

Mitchell v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 1537 became a landmark Jackson reforms case after Andrew Mitchell MP's solicitors incurred costs sanctions limiting recoverable costs to the court fees after submitting their budget late in his libel action against the publishers of The Sun newspaper.

The court will hear arguments tomorrow in a case where a Toronto doctor is appealing a Superior Court decision that dismissed his libel action against a former head of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and ordered him to pay more than $ 310,000 in costs.