Reputations Under Fire
Publisher: Little Brown UK
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780316648332
Subjects: Cultural studies; English law: defamation (slander & libel); True crime; Criminal Law - General; Media & the Law; Law
First sentence: The law of libel in England is rooted in the statutory offence created in the 1275 statute Scandalum Magnatum (scandal of magnates).