Sentences with phrase «libel trials»

The author, who served as a member of the British Parliament and once ran for mayor of London, was convicted in 2001 of committing perjury during a 1987 libel trial.

Former MSP Tommy Sheridan has been charged with perjury after a year - long investigation into his successful libel trial against the News of the World.

[163] In 1996, he warned of the growing influence of spin doctors in the party, and called for Blair to sack Alastair Campbell after a High Court judge criticised him in a libel trial.

A number of well - known figures have offered statements in defence of Andrew Mitchell in a libel trial over the «plebgate» row, with Lord Coe calling the former minister «a man of integrity».

She was giving evidence on day four of the libel trial brought by Mitchell against the Sun newspaper for its story on the row.

The true - to - life story centers on the libel trial of American professor Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), who is sued by the British Hitler apologist David Irving (Timothy Spall) after she publishes a book that calls him a Holocaust denier.

In 2000, a libel trial took place in Great Britain.

A libel trial involves findings of defamation as well as consideration of the defenses potentially applicable to each of the publications, including justification, fair comment, and whether the publications are protected by the defence communication on a matter of public interest.

Jim's First Amendment and media experience is exemplified by his successful defense of The New Yorker Magazine in the libel trial Masson v. New Yorker, 832 F. Supp.

Litigators can also expect more co-operation between parties, which «had all but disappeared post - Mitchell [the Andrew Mitchell libel trial in which Mitchell's lawyers were sanctioned for not meeting court deadlines]».

A libel trial brought by footballer Danny Simpson for an alleged infidelity landed his lawyers with a troublesome dispute over costs.

Included among them was an earlier book by Robert J. Sharpe — The Last Day, The Last Hour: The Currie Libel Trial.

Not exact matches

She has extensive trial and appellate experience involving business and contract disputes, fraud and civil RICO, trademarks and copyrights, e-commerce, broker / dealer sales practices, environmental litigation, defamation and trade libel, restrictive covenants, whistleblower, discrimination and sexual harassment claims.

Whether he won or lost his libel suit and criminal trial (s).

Written by David Hare and based on the book «History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier» by Professor Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University in Atlanta, Mick Jackson's Denial is an examination of Professor Lipstadt's (Rachel Weisz, «The Light Between Oceans») court battle in London to defend herself from a libel charge brought by British historian David Irving (Timothy Spall, «Mr. Turner»), a Holocaust denier and alleged anti-Semite.

Based on the acclaimed book «History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier,» DENIAL recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt's (Academy Award ® winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Cannes Award winner Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.

Although it seems insane to think that someone could believe this, when Irving brought a libel suit against Lipstadt and Penguin Books LTD, the case turned into a trial to prove that yes, the Holocaust did happen.

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.

A Toronto doctor has lost his bid to sue the past president of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association for libel over an email she sent to other lawyers, warning that he altered medical reports on victims of car accidents to thwart their insurance claims.

Jim has conducted trials involving securities issues, libel, contract claims, product liability, professional negligence, corporate fraud, and criminal matters.

To his client's relief, online trade libel attorney Dan Warner convinced an Arizona appeals court to vacate a trial court's ruling in a Facebook defamation case.

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

I concur in the reversal, but dissent from leaving the case open for a new trial, believing that, for reasons stated in the concurring opinions of MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS and myself in the New York Times and Garrison cases, a libel judgment against Rosenblatt is forbidden by the First Amendment, which the Fourteenth made applicable to the States.

On my proposed disposition of these appeals, the issue whether the claim for libel in the internet version of the article is subject to the notice and limitation provisions of the Act is relevant only to the issue of discoverability, an issue I would also leave to be determined at trial.

One of the first cases was in the trial of John Peter Zenger, in 1735, where a law against libels was used against him, and subsequently nullified by a jury.

In fashioning his damages awards, the trial judge appreciated that, for this reason, a comparison with awards in other libel cases was of little assistance.

Although Rabinowitz relies on several libel cases in which the amount of the compensatory damages awarded was lower than that awarded here, other libel cases reveal compensatory damages awards in amounts higher than those awarded by this trial judge.

His reported cases include RH Green & Silley Weir v BR (limitation period against 3rd party), de Bry v Fitzgerald (security for costs), Hartt v Newspaper Publishing (libel concerning a work by Michelangelo), Pearson v Sanders Witherspoon (valuation of loss of chance), Siebe Gorman v Pneupac (status of consent orders), Senate Electrical v NTL (liability of an employee for acquisition warranties) and Bendell v Smith & Others (a successful recovery action by a lender on a shared appreciation mortgage equity release — the only such case to go to trial).

On his Trial Warrior Blog, Antonin Pribetic reports on «UK Libel Reform and the US SPEECH Act: A View from Canada.»

In 1987 I played a peripheral part in what the trial judge, Mr Justice Caulfield, described as «the libel case of the century»: Jeffrey Archer against the Daily Star.

the appellants continued to post the respondent's pleading and his second notice of libel on their website up to and after the commencement of trial;

The trial judge's finding of malice was critical to her conclusion that the appellant libelled the respondent, and to her assessment of damages.

Defended libel suit by public official against newspaper; case dismissed after two - month jury trial

Automobile manufacturing innovator Henry Ford illustrated this point during a civil trial in which he sued a Chicago newspaper for libel.