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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 01:35 PM EST |
You are forgetting that you have to _prove_ you say the truth and the other side
can make the simple process of doing that very, very costly (or more precisely
unaffordable) to you, no matter how right you are.
This is not just theoretical, it actually happened and was bad enough that the
UK lost in the EU court because of this, and the last I heard that court was not
at all happy with how little progress there has been in fixing this.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 10 2012 @ 08:00 PM EST |
Liberace won his case in England, even though the defendant was
speaking objective facts about him.
In the US, Liberace would have lost the case because, in the UK, unlike the
US, truth is not an absolute defense.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 04:19 AM EST |
But it's also a bit of a problem...
Witness how people like Robert Maxwell covered up their wrong doing by issuing
threats of libel action - there are other more recent cases where the same thing
has happened but I can't recall them.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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