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Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling

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From: Paul Burridge
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <cKnA1AAJDDH3EwOD@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>, Andy (andy@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk) writes:

>Isn't it more correct to say that *during those 10 days* Demon were
>publishing material which Dr Godfrey had asserted to them was libellous
>- no court having ruled it to be so.

It doesn't take a court of law to declare something like the item
in question to be capable of being defamatory. Anyone with a
room-temperature IQ could see it was. 


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From: osiris@thanatos.win-uk.net (Paul Burridge)
Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
Date: 1999/04/22
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