Peter Bottomley, Libel Reform and Team Bottomley

On this website, we examine the conduct of Mr Peter Bottomley. How far have Bottomley and his associates gone to neutralise opposition to EDM2031? That is for us to disclose later this month. In the meantime, this is what he says about Libel Reform 

“Parliament should without delay make the law clear. The costs should be limited to half the estimate damage if the words are potentially untrue, damaging and not privileged. Additionally, the subject of the complaint should have a statute right to show that the UK is not the relevant court for one of a list of clear reasons. Also, the limit of costs and damages combined should not be higher than the number of listeners or readers multiplied by say 50 pence. Twenty readers creates the combined limit of ten pounds; two million copies might lead to a calculation of £1 million.”


With all the talk of free speech, Peter Bottomley's name was found on a barrister's website. It stated as follows

"Peter Bottomley MP v Express Newspapers (1995): acted for C in a successful libel action over the allegation that the claimant had betrayed British servicemen in Northern Ireland by sharing a platform with Sinn Fein"

No doubt Bottomley relied on the original legislation he now wishes to reform. So much for freedom of expression. Here he is huffing at super-injunctions.

A interesting arrival on the online scene is this email whose contents originate from his associates. The email  requests that I remove all my criticisms for a reference to the research paper. Of course, one has to politely decline such ungentlemanly behaviour from Team Bottomley. It occurred to me that none of the men had attended Debretts for their training sessions in etiquette.  Apart from that, we will present emails where Mr Bottomley tries to streamline a writer's tone and content of correspondence.

There appears to be a difference between what is said and what is done.