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An adviser to singer Susan Boyle today accepted substantial libel damages from the Daily Mail over a claim that he was unfit to handle her affairs.

Proposals for reforming the libel laws contained in the Government's draft Defamation Bill should go further to give greater protection to freedom of expression, a joint committee of MPs and Peers declared today.

The Society of Editors is urging the House of Lords to drop a controversial clause in the new Education Bill granting anonymity to teachers accused of committing a criminal offence against a pupil.

The wife of actor Sir Roger Moore accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages today over a claim that she lived with a "playboy" while knocking around the French Riviera in her youth.

Lord Justice Leveson has rejected calls for some tabloid or regional newspaper representation on the panel of his inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.

The Attorney General has launched proceedings for contempt of court against the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail over their coverage of Levi Bellfield's conviction for the abduction and murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

Singer Morrissey's libel claim over an NME article about his attitude to immigration should be thrown out as it was "not a genuine bid for vindication", a judge heard yesterday.

The Sunday Times has published an apology and paid "substantial" libel damages to Russia?s richest woman Elena Baturina.

A man who used a social networking website to post sectarian comments about Catholics and Celtic supporters has been jailed for eight months.

A local government watchdog dropped its attempt to force a journalist to hand over notes which could have disclosed a confidential source of information after lawyers argued that he was protected by the rights to freedom of speech ...