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Article #676Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
From: David Swarbrick
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <slrn7hkru7.ag.Sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk>, Sherilyn <Sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk> writes >In article <7fd8h4$6cg@bonkers.taronga.com>, Peter da Silva wrote: >>In article <1928@thanatos.win-uk.net>, >>Paul Burridge <osiris@thanatos.win-uk.net> wrote: >>>Had Demon done what he reasonably asked of them, they would have >>>saved *themselves* a lot of trouble. >> >>What he asked of them was not "reasonable", it was a pointless waste >>of time, since it did nothing to prevent the spread of the objectionable >>material. > >I hate "me toos", but I think at this point it's worth recognising that, >as a practical matter of limiting propagation of a libel, Doctor Godfrey's >request of Demon Internet fell far short of a reasonable request. It was a request to them to cease to participate in its redistribution. How anyone can get any effective measurement of the result is a different matter. -- David Swarbrick, Solicitor, Brighouse, West Yorkshire Web: http://www.swarb.co.uk. david@swarb.demon.co.uk Tel: +44(0)1484 722531 Home of the law-index (9200+ case digests). IT Law and contracts. The Law Society regulates us in the conduct of investment business
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fad9d,3f32b12ce8da2cf X-Google-Attributes: gidfad9d,public X-Google-Thread: 10b38e,116848e9373ed6b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b38e,public X-Google-Thread: 1139f4,3bef05ac7272c5b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1139f4,public X-Google-Thread: f6783,b7fbaecc2a00dadf X-Google-Attributes: gidf6783,public From: David Swarbrick <david@swarb.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling Date: 1999/04/19 Message-ID: <YCKDXCAdxuG3EwXN@swarb.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 468291550 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: swarb.demon.co.uk:158.152.11.233 References: <7dgt4n$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> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 924528214 nnrp-07:23342 NO-IDENT swarb.demon.co.uk:158.152.11.233 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,uk.politics.censorship,uk.legal,demon.service