Legal experts have feared that a recent case won by a UK politician for online defamation could increase the number of cases being brought.

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In an interesting story the state of New Jersey is planning a complete U-turn in regards to American Law and the liability of ISP's moreover, reducing their protection in Defamation cases. The short article also links to the official report.

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Sara Feuerstein looks at Defamation law and the balance between a persons right to a reputation and the freedom of speech. In this report professor Donald Kommers discusses the affects American law has on free speech.


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Kingston Whig-Standard takes an interesting look at the rising number of libel cases being threatened against bloggers.

The article looks at how companies are trying to silence bloggers from voicing their opinions online and how the personal and private content contained in blogs is not as private as one might think.

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According to CBC news a woman in Kingston, Canada has been threaten with eviction by her landlord after finding alleged libelous comments on her blog.

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Similair to yesterdays post, Lyndon Branfield discuss the legal dilemmas that publishers and bloggers face. He also considers cases such as Gutnick v Dow Jones and King v Lennox Lewis in regard to forum shopping.

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M K Anwar discusses the legal threats and problems facing bloggers, in particular the lack of legal knowledge bloggers have and how they are unaware that some of the comments they make are libelous and being monitored.

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An American broker has won a $1 million defamation case against a lawyer. Claims were made in 2003 that the Broker had committed fraud and conspired with a former analyst in biased recommendations of WorldCom Inc. stock, a company that has since gone bankcrupt.

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