Sentence examples for for a libel action from inspiring English sources

In a bid to prevent trivial actions, any statement must also have caused "substantial harm" for a libel action to be brought under the new plans.

Last Thursday, Judge Diane Lebedeff of New York Supreme Court dismissed a claim filed by a Manhattan restaurant, Lucky Cheng's, against Zagat's, the popular restaurant guides, ruling that "a restaurant review, no matter how harsh, is not an appropriate basis for a libel action".

Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, highlighted the problem earlier this month when he said the Carter Ruck law firm had issued the paper with a bill of £803,000 for a libel action brought by Tesco over a story about its tax affairs.

Loretta's investigations and lobbying have relied heavily on testimony from medical experts, but over the past year she has had numerous researchers who have asked not be quoted for fear of a libel action in a London court.

As many of the British obituaries have noted, Sayle enjoyed two late-life vindications, when his report on Bloody Sunday was finally published in the London Review of Books and when his autobiographical novel about Fleet Street, "A Crooked Sixpence," which had been suppressed in the U.K. for fifty years because of a libel action, was re-released to critical acclaim.

Mr. Carman's reputation meant that at the sign of a libel action it was common for him to be summoned by both sides, and the first one to sign him up increased the public odds of winning.

Lance Armstrong is being sued for more than $1.5 million by a British newspaper over the settlement of a libel action, which followed doping allegations against the cyclist that it published.

British science writer Simon Singh has won an important appeal in his defense of a libel action by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA), which is suing Singh for calling certain chiropractic therapies "bogus" in a column.

The disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is being sued for more than $1.5m by a British newspaper which lost a libel action for publishing doping allegations against him.

The call comes a week after a young scientist was threatened with a libel action for posting a complaint he made to the General Medical Council, about a private GP, on Ben Goldacre's Bad Science website.

- but that will be for a jury to decide if a libel action ensues.