Re: Who remembers this guy?

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From: Theo_Delight
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:26

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On 20 Aug, 21:57, Alex Heney <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> 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.

It took them months to do it.

In the meantime, Laurence's costs (even though he did much of the work
himself) were over £250,000 and Demon's cost were said to exceed twice
that.

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