Coming on top of the lifting of Carter-Ruck’s attempt to gag The Guardian on behalf of Trafigura, yesterday’s news that Simon Singh has now been granted leave to appeal Justice Eady’s perverse ruling on the meaning of the statements for which he’s being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association makes this a pretty [...]

Hey, you know me – always up for a bit of Spartacus action.
So as the call has gone out from Sense About Science, asking bloggers to reproduce the article for which Simon Singh is currently being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association then, of course, I’m more than happy to oblige.
So here it [...]

Having already commented on Alex Hilton’s current predicament vis-a-vis a vexatious libel action, its been most remiss of me not to bring things fully up to date by noting that two other bloggers, Dave Osler and John Grey, are in the same boat (figuratively and maybe also literally in the near future as I understand [...]

Although I’d guess that I’m a long way from being on Alex Hilton’s Christmas Card list after my rather sharp commentary on the general state of LabourHome, duty and common decency requires that I draw everyone’s attention to the fact that Alex is latest blogger to face the depredations of Britain’s Kafkaesque libel laws:
As you [...]

It seems that Blogosphere’s quixotic ‘relationship’ with the UK’s abysmal libel laws has reached a new low.
Harry’s Place is currently ‘offline’ as a result of what appears to be a wholly vexatious threat of libel action levelled at the company which hosts it DNS entry as a result of its having revealed that Jenna Delich, [...]

Time to get back in the saddle, and what better way to kick things off than by adding yet another name to the growing list of vexatious would-be libel litigants – and on this occasion it not an Uzbek oligarch or Texas-based shyster but one of the UK’s leading purveyors of woo, the British Chiropractic [...]

I’ve left this alone for a couple of days but to bring everyone up to speed the ongoing saga of J Mark Brewer, the St Stephen the Great charity/charitable trust and SPCK’s former bookshops continues to rumble on unabated, with Brewer continuing to fire off his rather sanctimonious legal threats in the direction of Rev. [...]

Britain’s libel laws have long been a national disgrace. In the Internet age they have now become an international scandal, raising sufficient concerns amongst our American cousins that Senator Joe Lieberman (Ind) and Representative Peter King (Rep) have found it necessary to introduce new legislation into the US Congress to protect the freedom of speech [...]

Craig Murray looks set for another bout of legal fisticuffs with our old friends, Schillings:
Schillings are a firm of libel lawyers dedicated to prevent the truth from being known about some deeply unlovely people. They managed temporarily to close down this blog (and several others) to keep information quiet about the criminal record of Alisher [...]

As David T notes at Harry’s Place, their dispute with Mohammed Sawalha of the British Muslim Institute  has moved on a stage further with an exchange of solicitors letters:
Last Friday, in the wake of a closely argued debate about whether Mohammed Sawalha, the President of the British Muslim Initiative, had used the phrase “Evil Jew” [...]