The McLibel case exposed damaging stories about the business and the quality of food being sold. It was also seen as a heavy-handed way of stifling criticism. In 1997, ...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - In a case that started almost 20 years -- and many billions served - ago, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that two British activists did not get a fair ...

McLibel: Longest case in English history Steel and Morris on Tuesday - 15 years after being served a libel writ by McDonald's. The European court ruling that two activists should have been allowed ...

The “McLibel” case, as it came to be known, was a notorious PR disaster for the fast food giant. It began when two activists passed out the flyers in 1986 in front of a restaurant.

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 ...

At the end of the case the High Court ruled McDonald's had been libelled and awarded the company £60,000 in damages, later reduced to £40,000 on appeal. But he found the leaflet was true in some ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two Britons found to have libelled the US fast food chain McDonald's after the longest court case in English legal history did not ...

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 15 February 2005 ARTICLE 19 press release: STRASBOURG VINDICATES MCLIBEL PAIR In a ground-breaking judgment delivered today, the European Court of Human Rights ...

Now comes “McLibel,” a documentary that recaps a notorious McDonald’s lawsuit that some have described as the biggest ... McDonald’s spent around 10 million pounds to argue the case, ...

An undercover police officer posing as an environmental activist co-wrote the leaflet at the centre of the McLibel court case, a book claims.

You might have heard of McLibel, the longest running libel case in history in England. Activists Helen Steel and David Morris handed out a leaflet called 'What's wrong with McDonald's'.