Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling

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From: Phil Payne
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <k8OsYHBLcwH3EwbU@swarb.demon.co.uk>
           david@swarb.demon.co.uk "David Swarbrick" writes:

> You can claim what you want. You are perfectly entitled to walk into a
> newsagents and point out that in your view an article in a newspaper
> defames you. You ask him to withdraw the paper from sale. He can do
> several things.

Would this work?

Isn't it the duty of the plaintiff^W claimant to act so as to minimise
damage to himself, quasi as the defendant's agent as long as the
defendant is in ignorance?

Walking into a single newspaper shop when tens or hundreds of thousands
are distributing the libel is hardly likely to do this - some means
which attracts the publisher's immediate attention such as a writ^W
claim form seems more appropriate.

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 Phil Payne
 Phone: +44 385 302803  Fax: +44 1536 723021

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From: Phil@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)
Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
Date: 1999/04/26
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