Sentence examples for cost of libel from inspiring English sources

There will also be efforts to cut the cost of libel cases.

Therefore, this week's announcement does indeed halve the cost of libel, but it still means that we are still 70 times more expensive than the rest of Europe.

A recent study by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University revealed the astonishing fact that the cost of libel litigation in England and Wales is 140 times the average elsewhere in Europe.

The MPs also want to discourage "libel tourism" by requiring a claimant who is not based in Britain to produce a very solid argument as to why the case needs to be brought there.As for the cost of libel actions, which can be ruinous to all but the biggest defendants, the MPs have few specific ideas, though they appeal to lawyers' sense of responsibility.

When the former Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay put a cap on damages payouts after some of the eye-watering awards of the 1980s, Fleet Street thought it couldn't happen again, but now, almost unnoticed, the mounting cost of libel is threatening media groups with huge legal bills.

They were introduced to allow members of the public who cannot afford to hire expensive lawyers to bring such actions, but news organisations claim they have led to a huge increase in the number and cost of libel actions, and that the vast majority are from the wealthy and powerful.

The costs of libel cases regularly reach hundreds of thousands of pounds – often far exceeding the payouts.

The idea was to allow lawyers to take cases for people who could not afford the high costs of libel actions.

We have recommended a series of changes to bring down the costs of libel proceedings, and called for urgent action to stop libel courts being used to hear actions with no connection with this country.

Will this victory tempt the press to embrace royal charter regulation and potential freedom from the withering costs of libel actions – the costs for both sides in Mitchell's case were estimated at in excess of £500,000?

It is an essential element of the hard Leveson scheme to punish publishers outside the PRP-recognised Impress by requiring them to pay for the costs of libel and privacy claimants regardless of whether they win or lose.