On 22 October 2015 at 12:36, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > > The UK libel reform act of 2013, I see, may be responsible for > the decline in libel tourism. > http://www.libelreform.org/
Yes I think so. From Wikipedia: """ A court does not have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action, unless the court is satisfied that, of all the places in which the statement complained of has been published, England and Wales is clearly the most appropriate. """ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation_Act_2013#Jurisdiction Libel tourism cases often would occur for a foreign publication that was not distributed in printed form in the UK but had a website that was globally accessible. A case might be brought on the strength of say a hundred UK downloads from the website despite the publication having a printed circulation of hundreds of thousands in some other country (and the authors and complainants all being in the same other country). I can't recall any specific cases right now though... If the court needs to be satisfied that England and Wales is the _most_ appropriate place to hear the case then this would rule out the libel tourism cases I used to hear about. Apparently this only applies to England and Wales though leaving Northern Ireland as a new preferred location for libel tourism. -- Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
