He acted for the magazine against Sir James Goldsmith when the latter issued some 60 libel actions against media organisations and news outlets in what became known as “Goldenballs”, one of the earliest examples of a lawsuit being used to crush and intimidate the media. The case was settled in 1977. In 1996, he secured the landmark ruling from the European Court of Human Rights in a case (Goodwin) on the right of journalists to protect their sources. He went to the police to seek the arrest of a war crimes suspect on no fewer than four separate occasions. The...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
