I rarely get excited about the law, there being only so much Carbolic Smokeball Co. a person can handle. But today my university, City, is hosting a law seminar with the journalists behind the Wall Street Journal libel win that has changed our libel laws for the better. You can read the judgment here.
Stewart Purvis will be in the chair as reporters Glenn Simpson, James Dorsey, editor Beth Blackshire and lawyer Mark Stephens get put through their paces by students.
That it took an American publication and American reporting to take public interest as far as the House of Lords is something for which all of us have reason to be grateful. Hope the students put the judgment they won to good professional use.