Sentences with phrase «where libel laws»

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Under current law, a libel can be issued in Britain if someone viewed an article on a website from the UK, regardless of where the website is based.

Famodun further said the APC has concluded plans to sue Fani Kayode for libel and insisted that the Jonathan campaign spokesman needs to explain where and how he came about the video in a court of law.

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.

So why should the author be asked to assume intimate knowledge of the laws of infringement, libel, invasion of privacy, and «matter otherwise contrary to law» in every jurisdiction where the book appears?

It is absent from the most recent edition of Black's law dictionary, and it generated but one result in a CanLII search — a passing but telling reference in the Awan v. Levant, 2014 ONSC 6890, a decision from November 2014 where Ezra Levant was ordered to pay general and aggravated damages for libel totaling $ 80,000.

There have been internet libel law suits where judges have issued orders directing that anonymous internet bloggers are to be revealed in the full light of day, such orders are normally accompanied by protests from a trivial yet noisy family of rabid people who deem that freedom of expression should be absolute and unconditional & the speaker should not be held to account for their words, without consideration to the accuracy or deceptiveness of the allegations.

How would I feel about a client seeing me breaking bread with the same prosecutor or cop who is trying to get my client locked up, particularly in instances where I feel the prosecution is based on false evidence, an effort to obtain a disproportionately severe sentence, or a law that I feel should be stricken or heavily decriminalized in the first place (e.g., I want the legalization of marijuana, prostitution, gambling, criminal libel and obscenity and the heavy decriminalization of all other drugs)?

Conversely, he points to the issue of libel tourism to illustrate an area where the English courts apply the law globally, where they should not, allowing foreign litigants to pursue cases in this country.

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.

It is also concerning to think that it might join that long list of situations where lawyers have been used in a way that has retarded debate on important health issues (such as, in extremis, this memorable episode when a High Court judge criticised Andrew Wakefield for trying to use libel law to silence his critics).