McLibel Two - Suit Moves from England to the EU Courts

The Government was responding to a complaint by Helen Steel, 39, and David Morris, 50, that they had been denied freedom of expression and a fair hearing when they had to represent themselves during the longest trial in English legal history.

For background on McLibel, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel
Beginning in 1986, London Greenpeace (not to be confused with the larger Greenpeace organisation) distributed a pamphlet accusing the McDonald's corporation of everything from selling unhealthy food to exploiting its workers and destroying the South American rain forests. In 1990, McDonald's filed a libel suit against several members of the organization, Steel and Morris included, for distributing the pamphlet on the streets of London.