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Blood libel (20937 bytes)
1: '''Blood libels''' are allegations that a particular group kills...
5: A famous example of [[blood]] [[libel]] is the allegation that [[Judaism|Jews]] kill [[...
9: ...ot'' a blood libel. It is possible that the blood libels against Jews originate from this, as the Phoenic...
11: == Blood libel against Christians ==
19: == Blood libel against Jews ==

Blasphemous libel (328 bytes)
1: ''Blasphemous libel'' is a [[common law]] offence.
3: ...s or seditious libel, section 1 of the [[Criminal Libel Act 1819]] gives to the court the power to order ...

Slander and libel (22710 bytes)
1: ...where it is not necessary to distinguish between "libel" and "slander".
4: ===Libel and Slander===
5: ...ts) broadcast on [[radio]] or [[television]] as "libel". Both acts share a common legal history, althou...
11: ... often the best defence against a prosecution for libel.
26: ===Criminal libel===

Food libel laws (2846 bytes)
1: ... food industry interests to sue their critics for libel.
3: ...od-product libel lawsuits than in normal American libel lawsuits.
5: In a normal U.S. libel suit, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant...
7: ...user no longer needs to prove that the supposedly libellous statements are in fact false...let alone that...
11: ...pple growers subsequently sued CBS under existing libel laws and lost (perhaps because the chemical is, i...

Blood Libel (story) (2370 bytes)
1: '''Blood Libel''' is a fictional [[Vampire]] story by [[Leigh An...

Peter Carter-Ruck (785 bytes)
1: ... an [[England|English]] lawyer, specialising in [[libel]] cases.
3: ...as [[Private Eye]], and [[Channel 4]]. His first libel suit was on behalf of a [[The Labour Party (UK)|L...
5: ...ferred to by Private Eye, a regular target of his libel cases, as "Peter Carter-Fuck".

Rupert Allason (1050 bytes)
5: ...it" without fear of being sued (successfully) for libel.

Marconi scandal (1203 bytes)
5: ...Cecil Chesterton for [[Slander and libel|criminal libel]]; Chesterton was fined £100.

All persons fictitious disclaimer (2468 bytes)
5: ...o avoid the possibility of [[legal action]] for [[libel]]. If an person believes this she and she is port...
11: ...no effect, as there will be then no suggestion of libel to defend.
15: ... who had contributed to the newspaper, sued for [[libel]], and in [[1910]] won damages from the newspaper...

Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko (1380 bytes)
3: ...llegations in 2001, but in January 2003 she won a libel case against the channel as well.

Chilling effect (1509 bytes)
7: *[[Libel]]
12: ...libel/libel/definition.html Terms associated with libel cases]

Innuendo (346 bytes)
3: ...veys the idea that racism is a kind of slander or libel, and a prominent part of the song is the innuendo...

Damascus affair (2019 bytes)
1: ...vernor and the French consul believed the [[blood libel]] and [[ritual murder]] accusations, as the murde...
4: ... a ''firman'' (edict) halting the spread of blood libel accusations in the [[Ottoman Empire]].
8: ...age=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA9902 The Damascus Blood Libel (1840) as Told by Syria's Minister of Defense, Mu...

The National Enquirer (2729 bytes)
3: ...ssue to Ms. Burnett. (In order to defend against libel, an article needs to have a substantial basis in ...

John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (1786 bytes)
8: ...ouglas|Alfred]]. Soon after the trial opened, the libel case was withdrawn, but Wilde was later convicted...

Declaration of Reasons (460 bytes)
1: ... II]]. In order to avoid the charge of seditious libel, William accuses James's advisor of influencing J...

Host desecration (1751 bytes)
1: ... (a century after Christians started making blood libel accusations against Jews), where it was claimed t...
3: ...trayed Jews in an even worse light than the blood libels: rather than killing a mere human, they tortured...

United Irishman (498 bytes)
3: ...In 1906 the ''United Irishman'' collapsed under a libel suit and was refounded as ''[[Sinn Féin (newspape...

Actual malice (553 bytes)
1: ...e actual malice in order to recover damages for [[libel]].

Chu Mei-feng (1622 bytes)
5: ...distributing indecent material, and some forms of libel. As a result the magazines in question were pulle...

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