Sentences with phrase «of libel actions»

Even though the vast majority of libel actions are brought through the civil courts, crown prosecutors can press charges for criminal libel if it is thought to be in the public interest.

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

Dan's business litigation included defending a truck manufacturer in suits by disgruntled dealers, the defense of numerous officers and directors of failed savings and loans, a recovery for limited partners in a franchise who were misled by a franchisor, defense of libel actions, trade secret litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, lease covenant disputes for commercial tenants of shopping centers, and business partnership disputes.

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 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.

British science writer Simon Singh has won an important appeal in his defense of a libel action by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA), which is suing Singh for calling certain chiropractic therapies «bogus» in a column.

The financial consequences to a paper stemming from the loss of a libel action could be severe.

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Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of Unite, has written that «the idea that Corbyn has ever shown hostility towards the Jewish community, or allowed anti-Semitic actions, is a disgusting libel».

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.

Particular areas of interest include: counter-terrorism law; «horizontal effect» under the Human Rights Act; privacy, libel, hate speech and pornography; public protest and direct action; House of Lords reform.

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 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».

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.

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.

Other scientists, science journalists and journals have also been subjected to legal actions and threats, and the libel law of England and Wales has earned a reputation for being anti-free speech and for silencing scientific debate and criticism.

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.

As to why the proceedings were filed in Texas rather than in the libel - suit - friendly United Kingdom, they said that «any action brought against the BMJ and Mr. Deer in London would have been immediately vulnerable to being struck out as an abuse of process.»

It's one thing to offer an opinion, but to publish remarks to an audience of a business» potential and present clients, offering unsupported statements as proven facts, may border on supporting an action for the tort of libel... and the MarkCoker post below should qualify as the cease - and - desist letter required before bringing such legal action.

His step - mother, uber - socialite Dede Wilsey, threatened legal action against his publisher (after excerpts had run in the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle) in an attempt to stop publication of the book on the basis that there were more than 30 «actionably defamatory statements of fact... which constitute libel per se» (and that was just in the excerpts!).

Documented actions and interventions such as Gordon Matta - Clark's (1943 - 78) BB gun window blow out, Gianni Motti's (b. 1958) appearance at the VIP box of the French Open wearing an Abu Ghraib - style hood, and Chris Burden's (b. 1946) TV hijack, will be seen alongside works by Dan Colen (b. 1979) and Nate Lowman (b. 1979) whose hijacked landscapes have become vehicles for the slanders and libels of a malignant culture of pollution, racial slurs, and tarnished reputations.

Two reasons that I can see: he does not admit to committing libel and if the apology works, and Heartland accepts it without court action and all that that entails (discovery, forensic analysis of his computer hard drives, email accounts, Pacific Institute equipment, etc., etc.), then the misdirection would be successful.

But in putting all their eggs in the one basket of «crooked skeptics,» this looks to me more like the locomotive light of an oncoming libel / slander retaliatory legal action train which could destroy the whole issue.

Lewandowsky falsely linked climate skeptics to moon landing hoaxism, and free marketeers to rejection of beliefs they overwhelmingly endorsed, so I guess an enterprising lawyer could think about a class action civil suit for libel (I'm not sure if there's ever been a class action libel action), against the researchers and the journal.

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.

NGOs and small publishers - including bloggers - are extremely vulnerable to the threat of a costly libel or privacy actions in the UK.

I was commenting here in the context of the Steyn and Ball libel actions, rather than trying to prove «AGWer deceit and misconduct».

And also, more germanely to this story, the recent victim of an expensive libel action brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA).

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 jurisprudence is clear, the judge noted, that in actions of libel and slander, the precise words complained of must be set out with as much particularity as possible in the statement of claim.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Although SLAPPs can take a variety of forms, many come in the form of a legal action for defamation or libel or for other civil claims including interference with contractual relations.

Notable mandates: Successfully represented Toronto mayor Rob Ford in a libel and defamation action; representing former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj in litigation proceeding contesting election in Etobicoke Centre; acting on the establishment of a large residential real estate private equity fund; a complex reorganization of an existing real estate private equity fund into private REIT, the investors in which include several of Canada's largest pension plans and mutual funds; acted for the purchaser in excess of 230 quick service restaurants in Ontario, B.C., and Quebec; acted for management in a proxy dispute involving an interlisted TSX and ASX company, involving various interest holders in several international jurisdictions; represented Pharmascience Inc. at Federal Court of Canada; represented clients such as Apotex Inc. in trademark dispute; represented Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association in matters before the Trademark Opposition Board.

Significantly, this SCC decision held that no malice was required for section 7 (a)(unlike common law actions of injurious falsehoods and trade libel).

Subsection 38 (2) of the Trustee At preserves tort actions against deceased persons, except for libel and slander.

When considered in the context of defamation law, therefore, communications of this kind are much more akin to slanders (this cause of action being nowadays relatively rare) than to the usual, more permanent kind of communications found in libel actions.

The court will permit a defendant to resile from an offer of amends made and accepted in a libel action only in exceptional circumstances.

If a defendant is successful in having a libel action dismissed on this basis, there is a presumption of costs being awarded on a full indemnity basis, the statute says.

Notable mandates: Successfully represented former Toronto mayor Rob Ford in a libel and defamation action; representing former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj in litigation proceeding contesting election in Etobicoke Centre; acting on the establishment of a large residential real estate private equity fund; a complex reorganization of an existing real estate private equity fund into private REIT in a matter involving investors such as Canada's largest pension plans and mutual funds; acted for the purchaser in excess of 230 quick - service restaurants in Ontario, B.C., and Quebec.

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.»

Acted for successful Claimant in action for libel against Ken Bates regarding the takeover and subsequent management of Leeds United.

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... I am unable to accept that under English law, a claimant in a libel action on an internet publication is entitled to rely upon a presumption of law that there has been substantial publication.