Reframing Libel: working papers

In November 2010, leading academics, lawyers and journalists gathered at City University London to discuss the future of libel reform at the Reframing Libel event. A book of working papers is soon to be published.

In the meantime, to coincide with the government’s publication of the draft defamation bill, the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University London has made digital papers available here: http://reframinglibel.com/the-papers/

Or:

• Peter Wilmshurst: Changing the experience of being sued and the impact on science and medical research
• Claire de Than: Time for a bigger time frame?
• Alastair Mullis and Andrew Scott: Reframing libel – Taking (all) rights seriously and where it leads
• Robert Dougans: Reframing Libel: The online perspective
• Andrew Stephenson: Science and libel
• Gavin Sutter: Reforming libel – evolution, not revolution
• Roy Greenslade: What needs to happen from the media’s perspective
• Razi Mireskandari: Reframing the costs of libel
• Magnus Boyd: The proposed restriction on corporate bodies to sue for libel
• Hugh Tomlinson: A practitioner’s perspective

Reframing libel: costs, corporations and citizen critics

By Oliver O’Callaghan, Natalie Peck and Judith Townend.

This post also appeared on the Inforrm blog.

Leading academics joined with legal and media practitioners to discuss the shape of libel reform, in a one-day ‘Reframing Libel’ event at City University London on Thursday 4 November 2010.

Chaired by Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC (left) and former Liberal Democrat MP, Dr Evan Harris, the event sought to examine the detail of Lester’s private member’s defamation bill, first introduced to the House of Lords in May 2010.

The aim is that the arguments presented yesterday, which will also be published as a collection of working papers, will add to and influence the debate, before the government produces its own white paper on libel, due in January 2011.