This thread discusses the Content article: The Limits to the Freedom of Self-Expression in the UK

Any help on fleshing out this article much appreciated!

PLease?

Pretty please?

Pretty please with sprinkles, starlight, chocolate drops and radiant moonbeams on top?

The standard defences to a charge of libel tend to eviscerate these exemptions pretty quickly though - especially fair comment and veritas.

Or you could get yourself elected to parliament, in which case anything goes, as speech in parliament is specially protected!

And my absolute favourite defence - vulgar abuse. If you were just intending to insult, you can pretty much get away with a lot of them!

But I'll think more about this, as human rights used to be what I did.

Cheers for that mate - I'd like it to be a useful guide that gets the Googlers coming in to learn more etc... having done a touch of legal studies myself it's infuriating to not know where you stand and throw one's legal certainties to the wind just because you wrote something on a screen...

Defamation is the main thing to work on and it's quite complicated - and conveniently so, cause it looks worse then it is when threatened...

How many journalists fortunes have been made in the courts? Old Ian Hislop seemed to make quite a good business out of being continually sued illy:

Regarding subjudicy I wanted to learn more but there is nowhere to go. Can't get anything on google or the NUJ website. This thing doesn't even like the spelling.

Vic

Yeah, it's a bloody nebulous topic, and I think that's intentional on the part of the courts and government, I haven't given up on this article and will be adding more shortly...

Ok, I threw some in, but what especially, do you want to know? And what do you mean: "This thing doesn't even like the spelling"?

Law schools a bitch ain't it?