The "McLibel two" today began the latest phase of their long-running legal struggle at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. Helen Steel, 39, and 50-year-old David Morris contended that ...

The recent McLibel judgment in the European Court of Human Rights could have significant implications for current proposals to reform Irish defamation law, but they must not be overstated, writes Eoin ...

Exclusive: McDonald’s sued green activists in long-running David v Goliath legal battle, but police role only now exposed An undercover police officer posing for years as an environmental activist ...

Two activists convicted of libeling the U.S. fast-food chain McDonald’s after the longest court case in English legal history did not get a fair trial, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on ...

An undercover police officer who posed as an environmental activist reportedly co-wrote a libellous leaflet that attacked McDonald’s and triggered the longest civil trial in English history. One of ...

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 ...