Sentence examples for costs of libel from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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.
Instead of cutting the costs of libel and privacy actions and opening the courts to all, Lord Justice Leveson responded to the hacking scandal by beginning a process where rich men can fund "independent" press regulators.
David Prescott, Rosemary Hunter Dunblane Community Council Nick Cohen ("How our laws inspired Trump's attack on free speech", last week) criticises Sir Brian Leveson for not "cutting the costs of libel and privacy actions and opening the courts to all".
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.
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.
