Sentences with phrase «new libel laws»

Second, Britain's new libel laws offer science journals greater protection for precisely this kind of situation.

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The President - elect is a man who has said he needs to «open up» libel laws in order to make it easier to sue newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post.

The New York law addressed a legal problem commonly known as «libel tourism,» or the practice of shopping a case to find a favorable jurisdiction.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the WAMC Locked Box, President Donald Trump wanting to take a look at libel laws, and an op - ed in the New York Times where, in Germany, some are calling for Angela Merkel to step aside.

As bloggers have noted, this case will be one of the first tests of a new Texas law designed to discourage capricious libel suits by putting the burden on the plaintiff (Wakefield in this case) to prove that the defendants» speech has caused damage before the suit can go forward.

As Adam Cohen describes in this New York Times story, because the Internet disseminates material published in the United States worldwide, authors and journalists otherwise protected by the First Amendment are finding themselves dragged within the purview of the more restrictive libel laws on the books in other countries.

There are also lots of questions being raised around the traditional law and how it applies to claims related to new media — partly because Canada's Libel and Slander Act hasn't been updated in a long time and when it was written the Internet did not exist.

The case gives rise to a number of interesting libel law questions and casts doubt on the appropriateness of a proposed new «public interest defence».

Retracting Libel Lost in Cyberspace: Implications for the New Defence of Responsible Communication (Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada)

The draft new rules would work together with reforms to UK libel laws brought about under the Defamation Act.