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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeffrey and Mary Archer emerge triumphant after winning libel case by lying to the High Court in London Credit: Alamy Worse was to come in 2001, when Lord Archer was convicted of perjury and ...

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.

Dan Laughlin sued the Erie Reader newspaper for libel in August 2022, his election committee regularly used campaign funds to pay his lawyers in the case. That pattern was broken in the most ...

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 ...