{"id":18185,"date":"2010-11-25T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=18185"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:21:58","slug":"the-libel-reform-campaign-one-year-on-with-rt-hon-lord-mcnally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=18185","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: The Libel Reform Campaign one year on &#8211; with Rt Hon Lord McNally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Libel Reform Campaign (Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science) would like you to join us to celebrate our first anniversary at a drinks reception with: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Lord McNally, Minister of State for Justice<br \/>\nRichard Allan, Director of European Policy for Facebook<br \/>\nRichard Mollet, Chief Executive of the Publishers Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In November 2009, after a year-long inquiry, the Free Speech Is Not For Sale report was published by English PEN and Index on Censorship. In June 2009, Sense About Science launched a campaign publicising libel threats against scientists such as Simon Singh and Peter Wilmshurst. In December 2009 the three charities came together to form the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libelreform.org\">Libel Reform Campaign<\/a>.  The impetus this lobby has created is startling.<\/p>\n<p>Over 50,000 people have joined the campaign and together we have campaigned for major reforms to England\u2019s libel laws to protect free speech, including a public interest defence, restrictions on corporate bullying, recognition of internet publishing, and improvements to existing defences.<\/p>\n<p>Libel reform was not on the political agenda before our campaign; now the coalition government has announced it will bring forward a draft bill early in 2011.  We look forward to seeing you on 2nd December to mark this progress and share our thoughts on the challenges ahead.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>7pm, Thursday 2nd December<br \/>\nFree Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA<br \/>\nRSVP: mike@libelreform.org<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Add your voice to the Libel Reform Campaign at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libelreform.org\">www.libelreform.org<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Libel Reform Campaign one year on<\/strong> &#8212; with <strong>Rt Hon Lord McNally<\/strong>. 2 December, Free Word Centre, London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1500],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35670,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions\/35670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}