{"id":2113,"date":"2009-12-11T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2009-12-11T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T14:54:53","slug":"changes-coming-to-englands-over-generous-libel-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/changes-coming-to-englands-over-generous-libel-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes coming to England&#8217;s over-generous libel laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the aggrieved, suing in London has been the way to go, due to English laws which strongly favour the plaintiff. This may change, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/11\/world\/europe\/11libel.html?emc=tnt&#038;tntemail1=y\" target=\"_blank\">laws are being reviewed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>England has long been a mecca for aggrieved people from around the world who want to sue for libel. Russian oligarchs, Saudi businessmen, multinational corporations, American celebrities &mdash; all have made their way to London\u2019s courts, where jurisdiction is easy to obtain and libel laws are heavily weighted in favor of complainants.<\/p>\n<p>Embarrassed by London\u2019s reputation as \u201ca town called sue\u201d and by unusually stinging criticisms in American courts and legislatures, British lawmakers are seriously considering rewriting England\u2019s 19th-century libel laws.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the House of Lords is preparing a bill that would, among other things, require foreigners to demonstrate that they have suffered actual harm in England before they can sue here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the aggrieved, suing in London has been the way to go, due to English laws which strongly favour the plaintiff. This may change, as the laws are being reviewed: England has long been a mecca for aggrieved people from around the world who want to sue for libel. Russian oligarchs, Saudi businessmen, multinational corporations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[86,186,224,270,217],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","tag-criticism","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-freedomofthepress","tag-libel","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-y5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}