Sentences with phrase «libel laws brought»
The draft new rules would work together with reforms to UK libel laws brought about under the Defamation Act.
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«So when Trump says he wants to «open up» libel law, he really means (if he has the slightest knowledge of the law) that he wants to open up — to change — the First Amendment, which, beginning in 1964, has been held to require in cases brought by public figures, proof that what was said was false, and that the newspaper knew or suspected that it was false.
He brought the suit [in Britain] because British libel law puts the burden on the defendants — in this case, Ms. Lipstadt and Penguin — to prove the truth of their assertions.
The very act of bringing a law suit for libel is diminishing to a certain extent of one's public image.
It replaces the common law defence of «fair comment» with the statutory defence of «honest opinion», and takes a potshot at «libel tourism» by providing that the courts should not deal with actions brought against non-UK or non-EU residents unless satisfied it is appropriate to do so.
Yesterday's House of Lords ruling easing British libel law is being hailed by news organizations for bringing English journalists closer to the freedoms enjoyed by reporters in the United States.
That's an important step on the path to bring British libel law in line with basic principles of free speech and common sense that all blawgers should be happy to see.
Romanova v Sloutsker: for the appellant Russian journalist on behalf of Media Law Defence Initiative in her challenge to Court of Appeal against jurisdiction judgment -LRB-[2015] EWHC 545 (QB)-RRB- permitting the libel claim of a Russian oligarch to be brought in the English courts.
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.