At 07:38 PM 8/6/96 -0400, hallam@Etna.ai.mit.edu wrote:

which such a claim was made. As for the UK laws, there is practically no defense against a libel claim that one can file in court. There is absolutely no basis on which to justify them. This is why the Singapore government uses them as a form of censorship.

There was a recent US appeals court decision in which an attempt to enforce a UK libel judgment was rejected on First Amendment grounds. The court refused to allow the application of UK law here. DCF