The prostitute at the centre of the Jeffrey Archer libel trial, who was killed in a car crash weeks before the Tory peer was jailed, died penniless. Monica Coghlan became a household name over her ...

Best-selling author and former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party Lord Archer hatched a false alibi before a libel trial in which he sued over a claim that he had had sex with a prostitute ...

Middle-aged Connor Fitzgerald is a happily married man, decorated veteran and devoted father; he's also an ""NOC,"" a ""non-official cover Jeffrey ... Set circa 1988, bestseller Archer’s ...

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge George Smith threw out the case, finding that Woods had not defamed Boulger because his post could be seen as posing a question about her identity and was ...

Jeffrey Archer moans that he can no longer grab a Swift pint at his local pub because of music megastar Taylor. The former Tory cabinet minister griped about not being able to get into boozer The ...

For someone who at 84 has just retired from frontline politics by giving up his seat in the House of Lords, Jeffrey Archer ... do real-life research. In Archer’s case, as with much else in ...

If you win and the defendant loses their case, you receive payment. The defendant does not end up going to jail or with a criminal record. There are two types of defamation: libel and slander.

Recent events in the area of criminal libel have spurred public debate over whether ... “Criminal prosecution of speech is a dangerous notion,” said media attorney Jeffrey Hunt. “In this case, the ...

Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested on Tuesday night near his Ahwatukee Foothills home by Tempe police. Court documents say investigators tied the suspect vehicle of the Democratic Party ...

Jeffrey Kluger is an editor at large at TIME. He covers space, climate, and science. He is the author of 12 books, including Apollo 13, which served as the basis for the 1995 film, and was ...