Two campaigners known as the "McLibel Two" should have been given legal aid by the British government to defend themselves against a libel action by the food giant McDonald's, Europe's highest court ...

Twenty years ago last month a small anarchist group called London Greenpeace - nothing to do with the environmentalists - began a campaign to "expose the reality" behind what they called the ...

McDonald's famously sued two green campaigners, Helen Steel and David Morris, over the leaflet An undercover police officer posing as an environmental activist co-wrote the leaflet at the centre of ...

Two activists found to have libelled the US fast food chain McDonald's after the longest court case in English legal history did not have a fair trial, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The British government violated the rights of two vegetarian activists convicted of libeling the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The ...

In the infamous McLibel case of the 1990s, McDonald's took two environmentalists to court under Britain's harsh libel laws for a pamphlet that charged the chain with various sins against workers, ...

The European court ruling that two activists should have been allowed legal aid in their libel battle with McDonald's is just the latest of many twists in the longest case in English legal history.

After working overtime to counter the claims made by Morgan Spurlock in his hit doc “Super Size Me,” McDonald’s is bracing for a second wave of docu-driven controversy. The spin battle began anew last ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifteen years after a postman and an unemployed gardener provoked the fury of McDonald’s by distributing highly ...

Two activists should have been given legal aid in their long fight against a McDonald's libel action, a court says. The European Court of Human Rights said the lack of such aid effectively denied the ...