Talk:Law firm tries to ban new book by Cambridge Press

Original reporting notes

• I gave DragonFire1024 an email to send to Murray for a statement. No reply yet. Anonymous101^talk 17:40, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
• Refers to source content on Wikileaks Anonymous101^talk 17:40, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

• Update: Email arrived:

• Comments:

Libel law in the UK is notoriously used as a tool for the wealthy to suppress the truth. There is no access to justice because ordinary people cannot, and publishers will not, afford the huge legal bills involved in defending a libel case.


I have received no libel threats at all. Rather Schillings, acting on behalf of mercenary commander Tim Spicer, have threatened my publisher directly. In consequence my publisher has insisted not only that I remove vital facts from the book, but is attempting to insist that I include views and opinions which are not my own, and facts which are untrue, in the interest of "balance".


The extraordinary thing is that the book is a memoir, and the large majority of things the publisher wishes me to exclude under legal pressure are things I was an eye witness to or even did myself. There is no protection at all for freedom of speech in the UK - the concept does not de facto exist in law here.

Thanks,

Anonymous101^talk 17:03, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

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a few thoughts

"According to Schilling" should be either Schillings (if from the law firm in general) or [first name] Schilling if from that individual.

When was the first letter sent? And when was the "yet more depressing correspondence" sent?

Should "Catholic Orangemen" in The Catholic Orangemen of Togo be linked to w:Orange Institution? If not, I think a clause summarizing the book's topic would be useful. TransUtopian (talk) 18:07, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Category request

{{editprotected}} Following this discussion with user:Brian McNeil, would someone mind adding Category:University of Cambridge? Bencherlite (talk) 20:43, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

• Done --Brian McNeil / ^talk 20:44, 5 December 2009 (UTC)