> A handful of extremely expensive London firms like Carter-Ruck and Schillings use the English libel laws—which, despite recent reforms, remain heavily weighted in favor of the complainant or plaintiff—to silence criticism.
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> Such laws make honest reporting on international crime extremely difficult.
This is not entirely true, the libel laws can stop investigative journalism but not the SFO, FCA, NCA and HMRC. Who has wide powers to go after scumbags and tax dodgers. Unfortunately they are underfunded and badly managed, on purpose. Making UK regulators toothless.
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> A handful of extremely expensive London firms like Carter-Ruck and Schillings use the English libel laws—which, despite recent reforms, remain heavily weighted in favor of the complainant or plaintiff—to silence criticism.
>
> Such laws make honest reporting on international crime extremely difficult.
This is not entirely true, the libel laws can stop investigative journalism but not the SFO, FCA, NCA and HMRC. Who has wide powers to go after scumbags and tax dodgers. Unfortunately they are underfunded and badly managed, on purpose. Making UK regulators toothless.