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“The reason, according to multiple experts, is simple: publishing stories like this in England and Wales is extremely difficult, and fraught with risk. ‘People often think that we have a law that protects free speech here. We don’t. We have a law that protects reputation,’ says Caroline Kean, a partner at Wiggin who represented the journalist Catherine Belton when she was sued by multiple Russian billionaires. ‘Getting stories out like this may sound easy to people who watch a lot of crime dramas, but it’s actually incredibly difficult.'” —
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British press,
libel,
media law,
Russell Brand
