Cyberspace defamation reform proposed in UK

Posted On June 13, 2012
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Claimants increasingly target ISPs to have allegedly defamatory material removed quickly. This, combined with a low harm threshold and ease of establishing jurisdiction in the UK has, according to the government, had a “chilling effect” on freedom of speech. The draft Defamation Bill plans to change all this.

Read here a discussion of the background to the Bill and its key proposals by Latham & Watkins.

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