Britain’s defamation laws are so tough that it is regarded as an international centre for “libel tourism”.
12th August 2010
The number of injunctions, in which a court orders a newspaper not to publish a story, has risen since the introduction of the Human Rights Act in 1998.
In addition to a straightforward injunction, there is the so-called “super injunction” which means a newspaper may not even say that an injunction was sought.