cearta.ie (Free subscription) | yesterday
... important example, which I hope will be followed by other plaintiffs. Index on Censorship quotes Geoffrey Robertson QC , who represented the author, as saying: [Rushdie has] pioneered a new way of reconciling the right to free speech with the right to reputation … You nail the lie for all time with a court ordered declaration of falsity and you receive your legal costs, but you decline...
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... on the publisher.By asking a judge to rule on a matter of fact, Rushdie avoided what his lawyer Geoffrey Robertson referred to as a casino-like process "where minor celebrities and politicians receive more damages for abusive comments than are awarded to victims who have been raped or those that have lost of an eye or a leg".Evans, a police driver assigned to protect Rushdie while...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... on the publisher.By asking a judge to rule on a matter of fact, Rushdie avoided what his lawyer Geoffrey Robertson referred to as a casino-like process "where minor celebrities and politicians receive more damages for abusive comments than are awarded to victims who have been raped or those that have lost of an eye or a leg."Evans, a police driver assigned to protect Rushdie while...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... publisher.
By asking a judge to rule on a matter of fact, Rushdie avoided what his lawyer Geoffrey Robertson referred to as a casino-like process "where minor celebrities and politicians receive more damages for abusive comments than are awarded to victims who have been raped or those that have lost of an eye or a leg."
Evans, a police driver assigned to protect Rushdie...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... on the publisher.By asking a judge to rule on a matter of fact, Rushdie avoided what his lawyer Geoffrey Robertson referred to as a casino-like process "where minor celebrities and politicians receive more damages for abusive comments than are awarded to victims who have been raped or those that have lost of an eye or a leg."Evans, a police driver assigned to protect Rushdie while...
