UK Libel law change campaign

Dec 11, 2009 19:14

Ben Goldacre on the launch of the campaign to reform libel law to avoid hampering public scientific dialogue.

I was sued by a pill salesman called Matthias Rath last year in a case which took 19 months to resolve, and cost the Guardian £535,000 to defend. We got £365,000 reimbursed: that means the cost of winning was £170,000, slightly less than ( Read more... )

science, freedom-law-democracy, law

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