Abusing judicial systems
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 at 5:45 pm | Filed under: Britain, Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia
I’d always rather blithely assumed that British law, as the original common law, was close to American law. This naive assumption got knocked out of me in law school when I did a senior thesis on the Freedom of Information Act in England, which, at least then (more than 20 years ago), could better be called the Freedom to Hide Information Act.
It turns out that libel laws in England are different too, something I would have known if I’d paid more attention to Leon Uris’s classic (and out of print) book QBVII
QBVII, though, is fiction, so how seriously should one take it? Very seriously, it turns out, as is explained in great and clear detail in this video about Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld’s travails with a Saudi terrorist financier who uses the British legal system to stifle any investigation into his financial activities:
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Hat tip: Hot Air
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I can’t hear the sound.
Data point: In the Philippines we were told at in-processing that defamation of character was a big issue and that the truth was not a defense. ie., she may *be* a prostitute, but other people may not have been aware of that fact before you told them and, thus, defamed her character.
Note all the newspapers cited to have been successfully sued by Mahfouz. Too bad Ophi (”Reporters without Frontiers”) could see this.
8 minute documentary with Rachel Ehrenfeld
In a special short documentary recording called The Libel Tourist from the Motion Picture Institute (via Hot Air), she talks about her fight against libel tourism.