However, Jim Allister QC MLA queried whether or not the problem with the current libel laws was as great as claimed, and said that allegations of so-called “defamation tourism”, where people from outside the jurisdiction choose Northern Ireland as the place to sue, was “a straw man in respect of all of this”.
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