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Dec 18, 2023 Analysis

How libel firm Carter-Ruck recklessly enabled a $4bn fraud

In 2016 and 2017, libel firm Carter-Ruck acted for a business called OneCoin, and threatened defamation proceedings against people who alleged OneCoin was a Ponzi scheme and a fraud. In fact OneCoin was a giant Ponzi fraud – second only to Madoff. Plenty of people realised this at the time. So why were Carter-Ruck helping […]

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The Law Society’s policy on the question of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
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Nov 8, 2023 Analysis

No, the UK’s worst libel lawyers shouldn’t be involved in libel law reform.

The Law Society has played an exemplary role in calling for libel law reform to prevent abusive SLAPPs – “strategic lawsuits against public participation”. In other words, the use and abuse of legal processes to silence allegations of wrongdoing. The Society of Media Lawyers is unhappy with this. They’ve written to the President of the […]

Nov 7, 2023 Analysis

Zahawi, Barrowman and Mone: why libel law rewards liars, and how we could change it.

Baroness Mone introduced a company, PPE Medpro, to the “VIP fast lane” for supplying PPE to the Government during the pandemic. There was copious evidence that she and/or her husband, Douglas Barrowman, ran the company. In December 2020, a lawyer instructed by Mone and Barrowman told the Guardian that “any suggestion of an association” between […]

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Dec 2, 2022 Investigations

Nadhim Zahawi’s lawyers referred to regulator for abusing libel law to shut down debate

Back in July, I reported that Nadhim Zahawi, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had founded YouGov using a tax avoidance structure. Zahawi provided an explanation which my detailed analysis showed to be false. Zahawi then shifted immediately onto a different explanation. In my opinion this showed that his first explanation was a lie – and I said so.

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Nov 29, 2022 Investigations

The SRA stops secret libel letters

The SRA has warned solicitors to stop sending libel letters which falsely claim to be confidential, and mustn’t be published. This should dramatically change the landscape for everyone from large newspapers to individual tweeters and bloggers. It’s now up to us to take advantage of it. Back in July, the Chancellor of the Exchequer instructed […]

Oct 15, 2022 Investigations

Nadhim Zahawi – another baseless libel threat

Nadhim Zahawi responded to an innocuous tweet with a libel threat. He refuses to answer any of the many, many questions about his tax affairs. The inevitable conclusion I and many others will reach is that he has something to hide.

Sep 30, 2022 Investigations

Time for solicitors who’ve falsely claimed their libel letters are “confidential” to put things right

The SRA will be cracking down on solicitors who send libel threats that they assert are confidential, and can’t be published – when they’re not and they can. The SRA has now made it clear that these solicitors should give serious consideration to writing to past recipients of these threats, and withdrawing incorrect assertions of […]

Aug 23, 2022 Investigations

The end of secret libel letters?

Last month, the Chancellor of the Exchequer instructed lawyers to write to me, accusing me of libel and requiring me to withdraw my allegation that he had lied. They claimed their letters were confidential, and warned me of “serious consequences” if I published them. This was tosh. I did not retract, and I published the […]

Jul 25, 2022 Investigations

Ending secret libel letters

This morning I wrote to the Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority, asking them to end the practice of solicitors sending libel letters demanding that allegations of wrongdoing are retracted, but insisting that the letters are confidential and cannot be published, or even mentioned. This follows the letters I received from Osborne Clarke, acting for the Chancellor of […]