Subsequent Libel Case and Freedom of Speech
Singh was sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association for comments he wrote in a column in The Guardian about the book. The BCA eventually dropped the case after a ruling on the meaning of Singh's article went against them.
Read more about this topic: Trick Or Treatment
Famous quotes containing the words subsequent, libel, case, freedom and/or speech:
“Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“In case you’ve never done it, this is known as washing your hands.”
—Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)
“The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.”
—Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740–1792)
“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Colossians, 4:6.