Posts tagged 'libel-reform'

Are the UK Libel Laws killing journalism?

Emma Knott
10 August 2010
Emma Knott
libel reform

Investigative journalism, by definition, would not function without the freedom to scrutinise, criticise and question its subject matter. After all, freedom of expression is the cornerstone of argument and debate. Yet our current libel laws are so bias towards the claimants and so hostile to writers that they are in danger of stifling journalism.
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