Libel Laws
In a 27 December 2008 newspaper interview, UK Culture Minister Andy Burnham said that the Government was considering changing the UK's libel laws to give people access to cheap low-cost legal recourse if they were defamed online. He said that the legal proposals were being drawn up by the Ministry of Justice. Recently articles on Charles Hemphill-Martyn and Ched Evans have seen bloggers and twitterers arrested or threatened with arrest.
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