McSpotlight | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-04

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case


00:01:20 1 History
00:01:29 1.1 Background
00:01:56 1.2 Libel charges
00:04:35 1.3 Judgment
00:04:43 1.3.1 High Court
00:06:15 1.3.2 Court of Appeal
00:09:37 1.3.3 European Court of Human Rights
00:12:19 1.4 Post court developments
00:13:02 2 McDonald's response
00:13:39 3 Media
00:14:00 4 See also



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McDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris [1997] EWHC QB 366, known as "the McLibel case", was an English lawsuit for libel filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris (often referred to as "The McLibel Two") over a factsheet critical of the company. Each of two hearings in English courts found some of the leaflet's contested claims to be libellous and others to be true.
The original case lasted nearly ten years which, according to the BBC, made it the longest-running libel case in English history. McDonald's announced it did not plan to collect the £40,000 it was awarded by the courts. Following the decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in Steel & Morris v United Kingdom the pair had been denied a fair trial, in breach of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to a fair trial) and their conduct should have been protected by Article 10 of the Convention, which protects the right to freedom of expression. The court awarded a judgement of £57,000 against the UK government. McDonald's itself was not involved in, or a party to, this action, as applications to the ECHR are independent cases filed against the relevant state.
Franny Armstrong and Ken Loach made a documentary film, McLibel, about the case.