All good points and I appreciate you including [2], I had not come across it before. [1] was a good set of laws introduced to curtail some of the issues you hav

All good points and I appreciate you including [2], I had not come across it before. [1] was a good set of laws introduced to curtail some of the issues you have raised. The libel suits that I have read about tend to be "A publicly claims B is a pedophile", "B is having an affair", "B steals orphans sweets after giving them a slap" etc. In these cases, I think the libel laws are sensible however I do recognise that it can be exploited by the wealthy in an unreasonable way. I suppose we have to introduce new laws to protect against this, or rely on the wisdom of our judges.