Au contraire, the UK is as obnoxious in exporting its laws as the US. The Prime Minister of Greece when (accurately) accused of corruption in the Greek press sued them in the UK courts and won $200K In recent years many Tory Grandees have benefited from the libel lottery. Amongst them Lord Aldington who was accused of being involved in war crimes during WWII and 'won" 1.75 million which the European Court of Human rights rejected as being "disproportionate". Lord Archer recently won $1 million after a couple of newspapers alledged that he might have been sleeping with the prostitute he was photographed giving 5000GBP to (and afterwards claimed not to have met). With the exception of the suicide act its probabky the stupidest and most damaging law that ever got passed in the English system. Phill