Berezovsky wins libel case

March 10th, 2010

UK-based Russian businessman Boris Berezovky has been awarded £150,000 by the high court in a libel case against Russian TV channel RTR Planeta, which claimed he was complicit in the death of Alexander Litvinenko. RTR Planeta boycotted the trial. Read more here

Through the looking glass

June 15th, 2009

English libel law turns US protection for free speech on its head. Floyd Abrams considers how the UK became an international libel tribunal
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