Re: Who remembers this guy?

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From: Theo_Delight
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:52

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On 20 Aug, 15:53, Arthur Brain <arthur_br...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The Todal wrote:
> > "Mike_B" <use...@localhosts.net> wrote in message
> >news:E5+bXFbHnVyGFwA9@localhosts.net...
> > > In message <1187588983.874978.217...@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Arthur
> > > Brain <arthur_bra...@yahoo.co.uk> writes
> > >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Godfrey_%28physics_lecturer%29
>
> > > The article begins by claiming that a legal precedent was set by his
> > > settling out of court. I stopped reading there.
>
> > He was the claimant in the celebrated case of Godfrey v Demon, which is an
> > important judgment and worth reading. It did set a precedent. It was an
> > interlocutory judgment and afterwards Demon settled out of court.
>
> >http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/1999/244.html
>
> The only "importance" in that case was as a demonstration of the
> defects of UK defamation law, which unaccountably requires the
> *defendant* to prove their innocence.

You will find that the same applies to libel law across Australia.

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