If a wave is building, Mr. Tweed is positioned at the weakest point in the breakwall. And Mr. Tweed practices out of offices in the especially favorable jurisdictions of Belfast, London and Dublin. Irish law is much stricter against defamation than that of either the United States or Britain, while British law is much stricter about protecting personal privacy. “A threat used to be somebody leaving a pig’s head in a bed,” Mr. Tweed said. “Now it is ‘I am going to put this on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube or Periscope!’ ”

Source: New York Times May 22, 2018 03:45 UTC