Sentence examples for trials of libel from inspiring English sources
The number of trials of libel, privacy and related claims against the media fell from 266 in the '80s to 192 in the '90s to 124 in the 2000s.
The complexity, expense and length of libel trials by jury means they are often avoided and has led to calls that they be abandoned altogether.
Fifty years ago one of the most extraordinary libel trials of all time took place in Britain.
At that precise moment I realised just how damaging the proposed de facto abolition of jury trials in libel cases contemplated by clause 11 of the defamation bill would be.
Zola was thereupon convicted of libel in a trial whose judge ruled nearly all the relevant evidence inadmissible and was forced to go into exile in England.
Rather than fighting against these odds, many people accused of libel in Britain settle without trials.
The trial of Zola began on February 7; he was found guilty of libel and sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 francs.
Correction: October 19, 2004, Tuesday An obituary on Sept. 29 about Gardner Botsford, a longtime editor at The New Yorker, referred incompletely to results of two trials in the libel suit brought by the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against the magazine and Mr. Botsford's wife, the writer Janet Malcolm, over a profile she wrote about Mr. Masson.
(Go to Article) Â An obituary on Sept. 29 about Gardner Botsford, a longtime editor at The New Yorker, referred incompletely to results of two trials in the libel suit brought by the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against the magazine and Mr. Botsford's wife, the writer Janet Malcolm, over a profile she wrote about Mr. Masson.
That would stop the most absurd instances of libel tourism.
"This was never a case of libel tourism," he said.
