It’s not just me who says it, it’s the Office of Personnel Management — and Lee Sigelman at Monkey Cage. (These are not the people who run the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but rather services like Voice of America, but as Sigelman notes, Ken Tomlinson moved from the CPB to these guys).
Via opendemocracy, this interesting piece on defamation costs worldwide:
Comparatively with other jurisdictions, England and Wales did not fare well in a recent Oxford University report called A Comparative Study of Costs in Defamation Proceedings Across Europe. The report was commissioned by the Daily Mail and found that CFAs are making defamation in England and [...]