Harry's Place

Harry’s Place announces an exciting competition – a Takedown Notice Race.
Back in February, Arthur Kemp, the British National Party’s former foreign affairs spokesman and webmaster devoted considerable amounts of his time to having this picture removed from the internet:

Arthur Kemp is a Nazi, yet for some reason appears ashamed of having been photographed with Nazi [...]

The British charity Interpal tends to react furiously when it is linked to Hamas.
So what’s this then?

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas participates in the breakfast with the martyrs’ families and orphans in Gaza and the ceremony was held in Ramadan food iftar Interpal Foundation charity. August 11, 2011

Was Interpal embarrassed? Oh [...]

I am pleased to learn, by way of Richard Wilson (no, not that one… or that other one either), that Private Eye has become the first British-based media outlet to report fully on allegations of what Trafigura got up to before their lawyers attempted to do what even Oliver Cromwell did not: subvert Parliamentary privilege [...]

So, the Finsbury Park Mosque libel action against Policy Exchange has ended in ignominious defeat for the Muslim Brotherhood aligned institution. Already embattled, as a result of the accusations of misconduct levelled at it by former Trustee and Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, the Mosque is on the ropes.
Policy Exchange is pleased to report that the [...]

This is a cross-post from Shiraz Maher
Britain’s pernicious libel laws are in the spotlight again: recently the Spectator, a weekly publication focusing on politics, culture and the arts, settled an ongoing dispute with IslamExpo following legal threats. The organizers objected to an article by Stephen Pollard (editor of the Jewish Chronicle) which drew attention to [...]

When newspapers reported that Robert Dee, a British tennis player was “the worst professional tennis player in the world” after the sportsman had set a record for  54 straight-set losses on the international professional circuit he threatened to sue for libel.
Like dominoes, iconic mastheads of British journalism toppled, issuing apologies and retractions. The Daily Mail wrote [...]

This is a guest post by amie
A cheer went up at 9.45am chez amie at the single word from the courtroom on Jack of Kent’s twitter: WIN!
Simon Singh has won this leg of his defence against the libel case brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association. The judgement does more than remove the cords [...]

This is a cross-post from Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

The Quilliam Foundation has announced a report on the UK’s Islam Channel. Quilliam co-director, Maajid Nawaz, has sent around a text message publicising the release, claiming that the channel is a portal for ‘extremism, bias, sexism, sectarianism and attacks on mainstream Muslim practices.’ In response, the Islam [...]

These letters have been passed to us. Is it really possible to defame a convicted terrorist?
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Quilliam
PO Box 60380
London
WC1A 9AZ
URGENT
By Email, Post & Fax- +44 (0) 207 637 4944
23rd March 2010
Dear Sirs
Re: New Quilliam Report
We have today received information that you will be releasing a defamatory report about the Islam Channel
this week.
We have [...]

The Sunday Express has published this statement:
East London Mosque
OUR article of December 27, 2009 “Jet bomb ordered by 9/11 spiritual leader” stated that Anwar al Awlaki, the Yemen based cleric said to have inspired the failed plot to blow up a plane bound for Detroit, had spoken at the “radical” East London Mosque (ELM).
We would [...]