 The championing of freedom of speech led to Calder's involvement in a number of prosecutions for obscenity, including one in 1966 for publishing Hubert Selby Jr's "Last Exit to Brooklyn".While the initial trial resulted in a guilty verdict, the case was won on appeal, and effectively ended literary censorship in Britain.The last novelist to be signed to the company by John Calder personally was Carole Morin whose "Penniless in Park Lane" he published in 2001.