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Article #648Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
From: Tim Packer
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <lr1edMAB5iH3EwbO@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>, Andy <andy@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk> writes >In article <371DA5C8.2826@virgin.net>, Osiris <orion.osiris@virgin.net> >writes >>Andy wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >>Eh? Moreland agreed it was in his judgement: "squalid, obscene and >>defamatory of the Plaintiff." >> >> >I had thought that the judgement came *after* the 10 days. Now that's an interesting thought. Could I claim that The Sun was defaming me, and have it taken out of all newsagent's all over the country; then the next day do it again; then the next day do it again... I could put a newspaper out of business in weeks! If the same standards are applied to newspapers as to newsgroups, it wouldn't matter whether it was true or not, they'd have to bin them just in case. -- Tim Packer
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fad9d,3f32b12ce8da2cf X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-Thread: 1139f4,3bef05ac7272c5b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1139f4,public X-Google-Thread: 10b38e,116848e9373ed6b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b38e,public X-Google-Thread: f6783,b7fbaecc2a00dadf X-Google-Attributes: gidf6783,public From: Tim Packer <tim@packer.NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling Date: 1999/04/21 Message-ID: <e6pEfbAWOkH3IwFv@packer.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 469326691 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: packer.demon.co.uk:212.229.132.20 References: <7dgt4n$f6u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1916@thanatos.win-uk.net> <ant1621201cbXL#k@pharpech.demon.co.uk> <1928@thanatos.win-uk.net> <7fd8h4$6cg@bonkers.taronga.com> <slrn7hkru7.ag.Sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk> <YCKDXCAdxuG3EwXN@swarb.demon.co.uk> <7fflp2$hsq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <cKnA1AAJDDH3EwOD@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk> <371DA5C8.2826@virgin.net> <lr1edMAB5iH3EwbO@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 924736828 nnrp-13:11617 NO-IDENT packer.demon.co.uk:212.229.132.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,uk.politics.censorship,uk.legal,demon.service