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Libel tourism in the UK is “an international scandal”

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Yesterday in the British House of Commons, several MPs accused judges and lawyers of using libel laws to clamp down on free discussion of terrorism and its wealthy and powerful financiers.
The Labour MP Denis MacShane, said in Westminster Hall: “The practice of libel tourism, as it is known – the willingness of British courts to [...]

Koreans protest judge who freed men guilty of rape and incest

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Cries of outrage have erupted in South Korea as tens of thousands call for the impeachment of a judge who issued suspended sentences to four men found guilty of incest.  The four repeatedly raped during a period of several years a developmentally handicapped teenage girl.
Tens of thousands of angry Internet users signed an online petition [...]

Controversy over court accreditation of journalists

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

In 2005 and 2006, Nova Scotia’s judiciary set out guidelines for accreditation of media seeking access to many provincial courts.  At a recent conference on “A Free Press and an Independent Judiciary” held in Halifax, journalists, lawyers, and journalism professors roundly denounced the concept and process of media accreditation.
Dean Jobb, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University [...]