21.   Libel actions launched by wealthy and determined plaintiffs can be enormously expensive to combat.

22.   The enormous cost of contested libel actions means that most plaintiffs will need financial support from unions or employers.

23.   Otherwise, the rule against prior restraint must prevail in libel actions.

24.   A sympathetic jury acquitted him after his counsel had luridly described the terrors and confusions for plaintiffs of undergoing cross-examination in libel actions.

25.   Criticism of a verdict which casts aspersions on the integrity of jurors may, of course, attract libel actions on that score.

26.   Damages in libel actions are difficult to predict.

27.   There is urgent need to reform the law relating to damages in libel actions.

28.   The New Statesman magazine is to fight the libel action brought by the Prime Minister.

29.   Basically in a libel action a newspaper MUST prove any defamatory comments printed are true.

30.   Boxing promoter Frank Warren has lost his libel action against his former protege Terry Marsh.