Gavin Phillipson: Some misleading reporting has engendered dangerous misconceptions about freedom of speech under English law

Jo Glanville: Jack Straw's move is welcome, but cosmetic surgery won't be enough to end this international embarrassment

Robert Sharp: Libel tourism is rife in our courts – and the UK legal system is becoming utterly discredited abroad as result

Rachel Ehrenfeld: The threat to sue the American author of an American publication for libel in a British court is bad for free speech

Sheila S Coronel: The libel bind Expensive lawsuits are curtailing investigative reporting in the developing world, where checks on corruption are sorely needed

Peter Noorlander: The libel bind: An 1848 multiple publication rule produces absurd results, is incompatible with the web and should be consigned to history

Sunny Hundal: The libel bind: The threat of legal action is having a huge impact online – many bloggers end up self-censoring as a result

David Engel: The libel bind: Jo Glanville thinks that Britain's libel laws are 'a malign force'. I would respectfully disagree

Robert Sharp: The libel bind: How can religions achieve redress for a perceived offence? There's a lesson to be learnt online

Rachel Ehrenfield: The libel bind: The net has extended the global reach of published material, but writers are finding their right to free speech has been curtailed