EileenG wrote: » The short answer is no, you don't have a say. Anyone can write anything they like about you, as long as it is not libellous. Just as a reporter can cover the case of someone accused of corruption and write about them without permission, so your sibling can write about anyone in the family. The only control is that what they write must not be libellous. It doesn't even have to be true, as long as the lie does not damage you. Only if it is untrue and damaging do you have a case for libel. The writer's opinion is that, an opinion, and that's allowed. Very few people remember the same event in the same way. Your memory of things may differ, but that doesn't mean his version is wrong, or that he can't write about it. If he writes something which you can prove is untrue and which damages you in some way (if he says or implies that you contributed to the death) then you have a libel case. You do not have a case based on "This may cause sleepless nights to the children in a year's time".
