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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:53:51 -0700, Arthur Brain
<arthur_brain@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>The Todal wrote:
>> "Mike_B" <usenet@localhosts.net> wrote in message
>> news:E5+bXFbHnVyGFwA9@localhosts.net...
>> > In message <1187588983.874978.217410@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Arthur
>> > Brain <arthur_brain1@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.
>
>In other words, fatso merely proved that there exist severe legal
>impediments to free speech in the UK.

Wrong in absolutely every respect. (Well apart from that he may have
been a "fatso", I have no idea).
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