Free speech campaigners say letters sent to booksellers are attempt to ‘short-circuit legal process’
LLondon-based libel lawyers representing a playboy financier have sent threatening letters to bookshops around the world in an attempt to block distribution of a new book detailing his alleged involvement in one of the biggest financial scandals in history.
Free speech campaigners said the decision to threaten a book’s distributors rather than the publisher or author could be seen as an attempt to “short-circuit the legal process” around libel law and risks setting a precedent that would intimidate booksellers.
Been sent two threatening emails and a threatening letter saying that if we sell a certain book we will be sued for defamation. Surely that’s a publisher/author issue not a bookseller issue?
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