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Month: June 2008

Libel or price of Carter-Ruck a crime?

Posted on 26th June 2008 by Richard Sharpe

I had to dip into one of the bibles of libel, Carter-Ruck on Libel and Slander, today and got quite a shock. “Libel is a crime,” he writes. It must be one of the shortest sentences in all of the 737 pages of his book. I knew libel as a civil action: and knew of Read More

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