Re: Who remembers this guy?

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From: Theo_Delight
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:27

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On 20 Aug, 21:51, Alex Heney <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:53:51 -0700, Arthur Brain
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> <arthur_br...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >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
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> >> > The article begins by claiming that a legal precedent was set by his
> >> > settling out of court. I stopped reading there.
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> >> 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.
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> >>http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/1999/244.html
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> >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.
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> >In other words, fatso merely proved that there exist severe legal
> >impediments to free speech in the UK.
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> Wrong in absolutely every respect. (Well apart from that he may have
> been a "fatso", I have no idea).

Well, he did say that his anorexia was asymptomatic.

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