Libel

  • LifestyleAOL

    Posted a searing TripAdvisor review? Could it get you sued?

    There was a time when we just had to put up with disappointment on holiday. We'd suffer through a stay at a dirty hotel, a horrible meal in a restaurant, or misery at a terrible tourist attraction, with no possible come-back. Now, however,

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  • NewsAOL

    Banker loses 'puppet-master' fight

    Banker Nathaniel Rothschild has lost his appeal over a newspaper story which he said portrayed him as a "puppet-master" who brought together Lord Mandelson and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The 41-year-old Swiss-based financier

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    Lord McAlpine halts some defamation cases: are you safe?

    Lord MacAlpine has announced he will not be continuing with some defamation cases against Twitter users who wrongly claimed he was a paedophile. Instead they will be asked to make a donation to the Children in Need charity. However, this is

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    Could tweeting cost your house?

    /AP/Press Association Images A landmark case has become the first to find someone guilty in England for libel on Twitter, after Justice David Bean found ex-chairman of the Indian Premier League Lalit Modi (pictured) guilty of having libeled

  • BusinessAOL

    Tesla's Top Gear libel case blows a fuse

    Top Gear has won the first round of the fight it's having with Tesla, after the electric carmaker asked if Clarkson and co would care to step outside following a 2008 episode. The high voltage handbags session is the result of a Top Gear