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English libel law is not fit for purpose
2011
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community
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At the UK general election in 2010, all three major parties included reform of the libel laws as a manifesto commitment and in March 2011 the Government published their draft Defamation Bill 9 to fulfil ...
The UK Government published a draft Defamation Bill in March 2011 in response to a public campaign objecting to the stifling of these discussions. ...
doi:10.1629/24150
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Libel tourism in the context of press freedom
2016
Annales UMCS Politologia
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Through an extensive review of relevant case law and studies I would like to draw attention to the problem of libel tourism which creates a chilling effect on press freedom. ...
A number of recent cases included wealthy libel tourists such as Nicole Since 2005, the number of libel actions in the High Court has doubled, and in 2009, there were 219 defamation cases issued; 34 of ...
A Draft Defamation Bill was first published in March 2011. This part sets out to summarize the main elements of the 2009-2012 reforms to defamation law in the English jurisdiction. ...
doi:10.17951/k.2015.22.1.195
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The "global pariah", the Defamation Bill and the Human Rights Act
2020
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
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On the one hand, it remarked approvingly that: The "global pariah", the Defamation Bill and the Human Rights Act Neither the Government's draft Bill nor Lord Lester's Bill imposes any requirement that ...
Without procedural reforms, any changes made by the Bill will have little impact on the problems that have been identified with defamation law. ...
doi:10.53386/nilq.v63i1.380
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Response to the consultation by the Ministry of Justice on the Draft Defamation Bill
2012
European Journal of Law and Technology
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This is a collaborative submission from a group of academics based in the UK with expertise in information technology law and related areas. ...
The preparation of this response has been funded by the Information Technology Think Tank, which is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by the SCRIPT/AHRC ...
Rather, the Defamation Bill should be concerned with making necessary improvements for the law of defamation within the UK, including protecting the right of any potential claimant who demonstrably has ...
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The Problem of Trans-National Libel
2012
The American journal of comparative law
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On the legal front, it supports the procedural focus of Britain's proposed bill, but also calls for foreign courts to apply a governmental interest analysis to choice of law in trans-national defamation ...
On March 15, 2011, the British Ministry of Justice proposed a draft Defamation Act 2011 with provisions designed, inter alia, to discourage libel tourism. ...
yet to be adopted and English commentators are far from See also Jordan, supra (summarizing proposals for reform of English defamation law prior to 2011 draft bill). ...
doi:10.5131/ajcl.2011.0011
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The Problem of Trans-National Libel
2011
Social Science Research Network
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On the legal front, it supports the procedural focus of Britain's proposed bill, but also calls for foreign courts to apply a governmental interest analysis to choice of law in trans-national defamation ...
On March 15, 2011, the British Ministry of Justice proposed a draft Defamation Act 2011 with provisions designed, inter alia, to discourage libel tourism. ...
yet to be adopted and English commentators are far from See also Jordan, supra (summarizing proposals for reform of English defamation law prior to 2011 draft bill). ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1795237
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Choice of Law for Defamation, Privacy Rights and Freedom of Speech
2019
Oslo Law Review
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The problem is that the EU has not yet harmonised the choice-of-law rules for defamation and privacy rights. Thus, proposals for reform of the EU choice-of-law rules are discussed. ...
The conflict between defamation and privacy rights on the one hand and freedom of speech on the other in international litigation is very controversial in the EU. ...
a new Defamation Bill. 5 The aim of the Bill was to reform the law of defamation to ensure a fair balance between the right to freedom of expression and the protection of reputation, and to deal with ...
doi:10.18261/issn.2387-3299-2019-01-06
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The fragmentation of intermediary liability in the UK
2013
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice
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Reform of the law of defamation The than English law has ever been: 'it is a defence for the operator to show that it was not the operator who posted the statement on the website'. ...
Lord Lester's original Bill proposed a new defence for 'facilitators', while the Joint Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill proposed a distinction between authored and anonymous speech (where a statement ...
doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpt094
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Closed Data: Defamation and Privacy Disputes in England and Wales
2013
Journal of Media Law
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on the Draft Defamation Bill and the Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions. ...
). 24 Lord Lester, Oral Evidence to Joint Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill, Oral and Associated Written[T]he Ministry of Justice and the Courts Service should as a priority agree a basis for the ...
doi:10.5235/17577632.5.1.31
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Computers and the Coalition: Legislation on Law and Information Technology, 2010-2015
2015
SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society
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the Draft Defamation Bill (2010-2012) HL 203, HC 930; see also Government response, Cm 8295. 18 A Mullis & A Scott, "The Swing of the Pendulum: Reputation, Expression and the Recentering of English Libel ...
The resulting legislation, based on a draft Bill 16 and pre-legislative scrutiny by a parliamentary committee, 17 as well as previous reports and a Private Members Bill in the House of Lords, was indeed ...
The unanticipated slew of new criminal offences, and the undoing of inherited regulatory assumptions on video-on-demand and gambling, highlight a real concern on the part of Government members with the ...
doi:10.2966/script.120215.141
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Section 18C, Human Rights, and Media Reform: An Institutional Analysis of the 2011–13 Australian Free Speech Debate
2016
Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform
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In the case of the Gillard Government's media laws, those costs were borne by the Gillard Government, and one would not expect print media laws to be a major political issue in the absence of a further ...
media laws. ...
The HRAD Bill was the result of this process, and was released in draft form on 20 November 2012. The HRAD Bill controversy was based on the fact that one provision echoed the language of s. 18C. ...
doi:10.22459/ag.23.01.2016.01
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Cybercrime Lawmaking and Human Rights in Ethiopia
2021
Mizan Law Review
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This article examines key aspects of the Draft Computer Crime Proclamation prepared by the Media Law Working Group from a human rights perspective. ...
Part of this legal reform program has been the revision of Computer Crime Proclamation No 958/2016. ...
First, the Draft Computer Misuse Act was benchmarked after relatively older cybercrime laws of Singapore (1998) and the UK (1990). 41 Second, the scope of this Bill -like the Criminal Code-was circumscribed ...
doi:10.4314/mlr.v15i1.3
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Gagging the writer: The implicit censorship of non-fiction trade book publishing in Australia
2021
Text: Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
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But writing the tell-all or exposé is not without consequences, particularly with Australia's defamation laws notorious for casting a "chilling effect" on freedom of speech ...
lives of public persons, and sometimes a perspective that might otherwise be considered private. ...
Section 30 of the Australian Defamation Act 2005. ...
doi:10.52086/001c.23465
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Empirical insights into corporate defamation: an analysis of cases decided 2004–2013
2016
Journal of Media Law
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The intention is to widen the range of methods with which to assess both common arguments for reforming corporate defamation law, and the 'serious financial loss' requirement imposed on most corporate ...
claimants by s 1(2) of the Defamation Act 2013. ...
it on in the USA'. 235
Publication on a matter of public interest: a fault-based corporate defamation law? ...
doi:10.1080/17577632.2016.1182713
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Balancing freedom of expression and the right to reputation: reflections on Reynolds and reportage
2020
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
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now set out in the UK government's Draft Defamation Bill. ...
the Draft Defamation Bill. ...
doi:10.53386/nilq.v63i1.373
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