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...added wryly, the British press would never uncover it. Both law and tradition conspire against serious, sustained investigative reporting in Britain. Coverage of any subject before a civil or criminal judge, for instance, is restricted to reporting what occurs in open court. If the targets of an expose bring libel actions against a newspaper-Fleet Street calls them "gagging writs"-all discussion of the case is normally suspended, at least until the suits are adjudicated. Editors who have complained at being muzzled have found little sympathy from officials. "You cannot muzzle a sheep," the late Labor Party firebrand Aneurin Bevan...
...contents of after-hour songs, banquets and parties that extend through the night and color the next day's play defy description and libel laws. And decency...
Having served libel writs on the two Tory papers, the Daily Mail and Daily Express, that first printed the charges, Wilson last week took his cause to Commons. He startled some listeners by admitting that he had discussed the land deal, which involved a property near Wigan in northern England, with Field as far back as 1967. "It is difficult for anyone to play golf with someone," he cheerfully explained, "and not know what business he is in." Wilson argued that Field had worked hard to improve the property. He had cleared it of slag heaps (which Britons have dubbed...
...television interview after his Commons speech, Wilson dismissed the row as a "silly little diversion" and a "seamy, squalid press story which has now been put into its proper context." The affair is not likely to blow over so easily. If nothing else, the disposition of Wilson's libel suits against the newspapers will keep the matter before the public for some time. Then there is a Scotland Yard investigation of an increasingly murky subplot involving Land Developer Ronald Milhench, 32. He has claimed that he received a letter discussing terms for the parcel that Field was trying...
...Prime Minister, who has long had an ingrained suspicion that the Tory press is out to get him, promptly issued writs of intent to sue both the Express and the Mail for libel. During a stormy debate in Parliament, he made an emotional defense of the land transaction referred to by the papers, even though his lawyers had earlier insisted he had no knowledge...