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Plaintiff claims damages for libel.

Then sue us for libel.

That's libel by Miss Klee.

Go ahead and sue us for libel.

All right. Supposing I do sue for libel.

Tomorrow, Mrs. Tilford, you'll have a libel suit on your hands.

Don't make any hasty decisions. You might run into a libel suit.

Those stories were full of enough libel and slander and doubleentendre to hang us all.

You're the one that wrote them lies about me. I've been thinking of suing for libel!

For decades, Britain s libel laws had been living down to Mr. Bumble s expectations. But freedom of expression worldwide received a boost and Britain s reputation for commonsense was somewhat restored in April, when Parliament adopted legislation revising the country s libel law.

This case which began as a case for libel, has turned into a case for attempted murder.

(b) That the right to freedom of expression and opinion is subject to the law of defamation, libel and slander

Previously, corporations and individuals all over the world who claimed that they had been defamed even if those suing or those who allegedly defamed them had little or no connection to the United Kingdom would bring lawsuits for libel in the British courts. The practice was widely known as libel tourism.

And that these petty acts of spitefulness have culminated in the publication of a gross libel which you do not choose to ignore.

In addition, the Committee considers it an aggravating factor that the author's proposed truth defence against the libel charge was ruled out by the courts.

Other initiatives to safeguard the populace and promote transparency include the repeal of the criminal libel law and the adoption of amendments to the criminal and penal codes.

The Palestinian Observer apos s callous manipulation of this despicable libel is revealing. Not only can the man not be taken seriously, but he apparently advocates the well tried technique of the big lie .

As for Zola, who defended Captain Alfred Dreyfus from charges of treason fueled by anti Semitism, he was easily convicted for libel because he merely questioned the motives of witnesses without offering any new evidence.

The new law permits an author or publisher who is sued to invoke a public interest defense. Moreover, corporations, charities, and other institutions filing libel suits will now have to show that they suffered financial damage.

These events were initiated by a court wrangle with Serzh Sargsyan, then the Minister of National Security and Internal Affairs. We demanded an apology for his impugning our paper s reputation he accused of us of libel.

Although Tudor faced innumerable lawsuits for libel, he could not be silenced. In the 2000 general election, as the ruling center right coalition imploded, the PRM received about 20 of the popular vote, becoming the second largest party in parliament.

Globus, for example, has about 100 civil cases and between 15 to 20 criminal cases pending against it Nacional has about 50 civil and 10 to 15 criminal suits Feral Tribune has about 60 libel cases, amounting to nearly 3 million.

The company expected that its critics would give up. But when two of them, with nothing to lose, defended themselves in court, the result was the longest libel trial in British legal history and a public relations disaster for the corporate giant.

Often, their targets had much fewer resources, which meant that a libel suit requiring both sides to spend substantial amounts could be effective in silencing critics even if it did not succeed. Within the United Kingdom itself, the law meant that many important issues could not be fully debated.

The two men were reportedly sentenced on 27 May 1997 by the Court of First Instance in Sana a to 80 lashes each on charges of libel, allegedly as a consequence of having written and published a series of articles critical of a leading politician in the al Islah party.

It's the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, and they've just got funding to make it an international modern media project, and this is taking all of the best laws around the world about freedom of expression, protection of whistleblowers, protection from libel, source protection, and trying to make Iceland a publishing haven.

The cases involving science included a costly lawsuit against Nature, one of the world s best known and most widely respected scientific journals. Nature had to contend with a libel suit for pointing out that a physics journal had published many articles by its editor, and that these articles had not been subjected to peer review.

Singh argues that this requirement by itself would have prevented the suit against him by the British Chiropractic Association from going forward. And libel tourism will be drastically reduced by a new rule that excludes suits from outside the European Union if it cannot be shown that the UK is the most appropriate place to bring the case.

Index on Censorship, a bimonthly journal that has monitored censorship worldwide and published the works of censored writers for the past four decades and Sense About Science, an organization that promotes scientific knowledge and understanding. The targeting of scientific journals and scientists for exposing charlatans was a leading factor in generating public support for reform of the UK s libel law.

Under paragraph 65 of the CDM modalities and procedures, if the Executive Board wishes to conduct a review it must conclude that its decision to proceed to a review is based on a finding of fraud, malfeasance or incompetence on the part of the operational entity which finding, if made public and later found to be unsupported by the facts, may lead to libel claims.

British law firms that have apparently made a lot of money representing libel plaintiffs from around the world impeded adoption of the new law through intense lobbying. The scientists, writers, and anti censorship activists who led the campaign were assisted in Parliament by Lord Lester, a well known British civil liberties lawyer, who introduced a Private Members Bill in 2010, and eventually by endorsement of reform by all three major political parties.