On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 15:16 +0000, John Levine wrote:
That's a good point. But (and here comes the amateur lawyering)
I believe that a valid defense against libel is truth.
Only in the United States, not in the UK nor in many other countries.
(To be picky, there is no such thing as 'UK' law. Scotland has a
different legal setup to England and Wales.)
Looking up "libel truth" in UK pages for Google pointed me to:
http://www.swarb.co.uk/lawb/defTrueLibel.shtml
which is from a personal injury solicitors, so has some legal standing.
The important point is that a libel in English law has to be both untrue
and defamatory.
Something that "causes him to be shunned or avoided" is one means of
defamation and would seem to be a good description of a DNSBL!
cheers
David Wilson.
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