Tipping the Balance - the right to a reputation and the right to free expression
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Comment | 18 March 2011
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s speech, ‘Restoring Civil Liberties’, delivered before an audience of libel reform hopefuls in January, repeated an assertion that has become something of a cliché in discussions of England’s libel laws. He said: “It is a farce—and an international embarrassment—that the American Congress has felt it necessary to legislate to protect their citizens from our libel laws.”
Not so. On the international stage—that is, around the world, not
just in America—our libel laws are highly regarded.
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First published in the New Law Journal 18 March 2011.
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