Today the UK's new Defamation Bill passed into law, subject to the anachronism of Royal Assent, which hopefully will happen within hours.
That's great news. Politicians of all parties will no doubt line up to take credit for beginning the reform of our preposterous libel legislation, but in doing that they would be lying to us.
I believe that this is solely the result of concentrated people-power.
LibelReform.org has led the way and they are rightly proud of themselves for what they have achieved. They mustered the votes of so many people that the (barely elected) Government just had to take notice of them.
You can read Libel Reform's latest news here and their initial summary assessment here.
A big Well Done to Síle and Mike! And a general Well Done to all of us who have signed petitions and stood up for justice and free speech!
It's a great start!
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