One day next week, a pair of Londoners living in poverty will enter Courtroom 35 of the London Law Courts, alongside bewigged lawyers and executives in business suits, to hear the verdict in the ...

Ronald McDonald recently appeared as an interviewee on a cable-news show, which tells you more about TV news than it does about McDonald’s. But hey, why not? Most guests on those shows stick to the ...

Two activists found to have libelled the US fast food chain McDonald's after the longest court case in English legal history did not have a fair trial, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

In the infamous McLibel case of the 1990s, McDonald's took two environmentalists to court under Britain's harsh libel laws for a pamphlet that charged the chain with various sins against workers, ...

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that "McLibel" environmental campaigners David Morris and Helen Steel should have been given legal aid by the British Government. The pair were found ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifteen years after a postman and an unemployed gardener provoked the fury of McDonald’s by distributing highly ...

After working overtime to counter the claims made by Morgan Spurlock in his hit doc “Super Size Me,” McDonald’s is bracing for a second wave of docu-driven controversy. The spin battle began anew last ...

If you ever needed proof that the law is not only an ass, but a pain in the same, then the McLibel trial was it. Trial is right. God, it was dull. Even thinking about it makes my brain ache to ...

Cinema Libre Studio has picked up all North American rights to “McLibel,” a documentary that follows two Greenpeace activists through what became the longest trial in England’s history. McDonald’s ...

Two environmental campaigners who took on hamburger chain McDonald's and lost today won their claim that the libel trial was unfair. The European Court of Human Rights said the UK legal system ...

The longest-running case in English legal history neared its end Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of two environmental activists McDonald’s had sued. The so-called ...