Re: Who remembers this guy?

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From: Alex Heney
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:57

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:07:16 GMT, Mike_B <usenet@localhosts.net>
wrote:

>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.

It claims no such thing.

The legal precedent and the settling out of court were two different
things.

A legal precedent *was* set, when a high court judge ruled that Demon
could not use the defence allowed by Section1 of the defamation act
once they knew of the defamatory postings.

Once that defence had been struck out by the high court, they *then*
reached a settlement out of court, but the precedent had already been
set.
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Alex Heney, Global Villager
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