The fact that England has become an international centre for libel litigation underlines the need for urgent reformThere has never been such momentum for reforming English libel law. The impetus has come, to our shame, from overseas. Neither our own legislators or even our leading media organisations have, until now, seen the need to campaign for reform. The first push for change began in the United States, following the academic Rachel Ehrenfeld's campaign to protect American citizens from libel actions in English courts. Ehrenfeld had been sued by the litigious Saudi businessman Khalid bin Mahfouz. Only 23 copies of her book Funding Evil were available in the UK, but it was enough for bin Mahfouz to bring an action against ...