parliament changed the laws around defamation in 2013. Before that, billionaires like Russian Boris Berezovsky (who sued Forbes magazine in 1997 in a British court, even though only 2,000 copies of its 785,000 worldwide distribution had been sold in the UK), and Saudi citizen Maan al-Sanea, had used the UK to settle defamation cases despite having only a minimal connection to the country.
