On 08/12/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/8/05, Justin Cormack
<justin(a)specialbusservice.com> wrote:
your favour.
It has changed a bit now. The main thing was you didnt
have to prove damages, unlike in the US; you would get a notional
(often large but once famously a penny) amount of damages for loss
of reputation.
This is tempered by the fact that UK libel law is so bad that most
other countries will not enforce a UK libel judgment.
[shrug] Our editor who lost still has a £250,000 outstanding judgement
preventing them from ever entering the UK on pain of Nasty Legal
Consequences. If the Foundation gets hit, well, there might be fun
problems if we happen to have set up squids in London, being as they
would be seizable property...
It may not be a killer to anything, but it's not going to be pleasant
nor is it going to be the sort of thing the Foundation's PR will do
well out of.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk