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Cardiologist will fight libel case ‘to defend free speech’
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 6 days ago
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Peter Wilmshurst, a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, told The Times that he aims to use a public-interest defence to fight the claim from NMT Medical and establish the principle that scientists may engage freely in academic debate.
Tags: Dr Wilmshurst, NMT Medical, libel law, Seattle, Chiropractic, British Chiropractic Association, Fair comment, Tort law, Simon Singh, Defamation, United States law, Crimes
Charities watchdog releases Simon Singh libel case complaints
London :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
Credibility At the time, the only information released about the incident was the correspondence between the charity and the watchdog . We've now got the other side of the conversation: the correspondence between the Charity Commission and the complainant, and I...
Tags: Simon Singh, The Charity Commission, charity watchdog, libel case, United Kingdom, London
From democracy activist to censor? | Jeremy Goldkorn
Boston :: United Kingdom | 15 days ago
Credibility It's not just British libel law – well-funded legal attacks are stifling free speech and scholarship in the US too The Guardian's defeat of a gagging order engineered by Trafigura's law firm, Carter-Ruck, bears uncomfortable similarities to another recent...
Tags: Jenzabar, free speech, student leaders, United Kingdom, Boston, Tort law, English defamation law, Simon Singh, Trafigura, Peter Carter-Ruck, Entertainment Culture, Chai Ling, Defamation, Law in the United Kingdom
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How libel laws silence our democracy
London :: United Kingdom | 16 days ago
Credibility Never mind the fatwas, I say, and don't get hyper-agitated by the PC platoon, we who do not find rape jokes hilarious and who rebuff the fond nicknames "Paki" and "retard" and believe careless language can sanction cruelty and injustice. Though accused...
Tags: libel law, libel actions, British Chiropractic Association, United Kingdom, London, Rachel Ehrenfeld, Simon Singh, Freedom of speech in the United States, Funding Evil, Political libel, Defamation, Libel tourism, English defamation law
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I attended a talk by science writer Simon Singh last night, which was excellent. He spoke briefly, then answered questions at length about his latest book, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, co-written with the world’s first professor...
Tags: journalism, libel, libel law, Simon Singh, alternative medicine
Writer wins chiropractors case ruling
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Science writer Simon Singh wins ruling in chiropractic libel battle Preliminary judgment overturned in libel case brought by British Chiropractic Association Simon Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Associaton after he wrote a critical article...
Tags: British Chiropractic Association, Simon Singh, libel case
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