Sentences with phrase «libel case»

He has appeared in libel cases for local UK authorities and for South Africa's largest circulation newspaper on a regular basis.

In Washington, meanwhile, Legal Times correspondent Tony Mauro writes about the increasing number of libel cases brought by judges.

He said, «Because a lot of people do not bring libel cases against media houses, they think they can write whatever they like.

«Rushed» and «inadequate» plans to cut conditional fee agreement (CFA) success fees for libel cases by up to 90 % have been defeated in the House of Commons.

Most operate on such a low budget that any lost libel case will sink them.

As reported by The Times of London, five law lords unanimously ruled in favor of a public - interest defense that more closely resembles the «actual malice» standard applied in U.S. libel cases involving public officials and public figures.

Centered around the British libel case against Holocaust historian Deborah E Lipstadt (Weisz) for calling Holocaust denier and Hitler sympathizer David Irving (Timothy Spall) as what he self - evidently is in her writing, Denial should be anchored at the very least by either good intentions or easy procedural entertainment.

His legal team uncovered around 1000 tweets and 9000 re-tweets that made this completely untrue link: until Lord McAlpine decided not to, it was set to be the largest libel case in British legal history.

However, there are Pennsylvania personal injury attorneys in the area that have experience dealing with all types of defamation cases, including libel cases that involve published information over the internet, that can help people with filing a claim.

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) and media boutique Russells Solicitors are advising on the a dispute between former Smiths frontman Morrissey and music magazine NME which could see one of the first UK libel cases heard before a jury in recent years.

Between 2007 and 2011 I was embroiled in what has become one of the most controversial libel cases in recent history.

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.

But a future decision by a judge to impose costs in the case of a victorious libel case could be enough to change the terms of debate and push publishers towards the state - backed regulator.

An amendment to the enterprise and regulatory reform bill going through the Lords this afternoon will ensure two - thirds of MPs and peers have to agree any future changes to a royal charter, while an amendment to the crime and courts bill will ensure exemplary damages are given to those who fight libel cases outside the regulatory system.

Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru called for councillors who approved Carmarthenshire's pension and libel case payments to resign.

Maybe a good libel case would clear the air.

This week, St. Lewis won her three - year libel case against Rancourt and was awarded $ 350,000 in damages by an Ottawa civil jury, based on damages to her reputation stemming from Rancourt's use of the pejorative term in a 2011 blog.

Libel cases certainly count as government action.

Myers said Cusipag was not deterred by the substantial damage award in a previous libel case: «All that it seems to have done is prompted her to transfer her house to her son for free and to transfer two condominium units to others.

Our firm has successfully handled hundreds of Internet defamation and trade libel cases.

Because so few libel cases ever go to trial, opportunities to argue for the responsible journalism defence in court were rare.

An unusual libel case came my way in the late 1980s.

His legal journalism has included popularising the Simon Singh libel case and discrediting the Julian Assange myths about his extradition case.

S.C.J. commented on the Muscutt factors in Black v. Breeden [2009] O.J. No. 1292, a rather interesting libel case involving multiple defendants in Ontario, the U.S. and Israel,

However, in a report release by Modern Ghana as of 2006, 90 % of libel cases involve journalists, wherein it can be deduced that there is a possibility that journalists become ignorant in not cross checking information before publication of articles.

Despite these protections, the Supreme Court stated in the largest libel case in Canada, Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto,

A controversial libel case in which a judge ordered two Ontario women to pay their uncle $ 125,000 in damages for falsely accusing him of sexual assault will likely prevent other sexual assault victims from coming forward, advocates say.

President Barack Obama has signed a law defending US writers and journalists and academics from British libel cases.

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.»

If I'm wrong then I'll hold my hands up but what I said would be more akin to an incorrect statement and wouldn't come close to being as much of a libel case as, to take a (oough cough) completely random example and this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, accusing referees of being bent

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.

The chairman said he would be pursuing a libel case against Gray, and also suggested Gray broke the law by obtaining and disseminating his personnel file.

It would also bar Lord Archer, who was ejected from the House in 2000 after being jailed for perjury in a libel case.

The passing of the royal charter opens the door for a judge to impose a financial penalty on a newspaper even when it wins a libel case — although any such move would have to wait for a year until the state - backed regulator is established.

Some expected Liam Fox, who recently settled his libel case over the Adam Werritty scandal, to be put forward for the role.

However he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for committing perjury during the libel case, of which he served seven months before his release in January 2000.

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.

His ministerial career was brief and ended when he famously gave a speech about leading a fight with a «sword of truth» and a libel case he brought collapsed.

On 21 July 1995 a libel case brought by Neil Hamilton (then a member of parliament) against The Guardian was stopped after Justice May ruled that the Bill of Rights» prohibition on the courts» ability to question parliamentary proceedings would prevent The Guardian from obtaining a fair hearing.

The Sun newspaper has hailed its victory over Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell in the «Plebgate» libel case.

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).

The same U.S. company that had originally filed against him in 2007 served his lawyers yesterday with its latest complaint, which concerns when Wilmshurst explained his libel case on BBC Radio in 2009.

«Denial» (Mick Jackson) The 18 months of Rachel Weisz's improbable comeback continues with this courtroom drama centered on a libel case filed by Holocaust denier played by Timothy spall.