Max Mosley

[Mr. Tea]

Well, I didn't see that article but this has been a big thing for a while. Any companies suing (sueing?) for libel will seek to have the trial in the UK on the flimsiest pretext because that is where they are most likely to win the most amount of money. British libel law is effectively being used to prevent books being published in other countries.

Yeah, apparently all it takes is for a single person in England to have read something allegedly libellous and that's good enough for our libel law to apply, no matter where the text was written or published, the nationality of its author of the nationality of its intended audience. Which seems a bit off, to say the least. Still, it makes a change from people being tried in the US for actions that are criminal in US law but legal in the country where they actually occurred...

 

[crackerjack]

(suing)

Weirdest of all, I thought, was Eady's ruling that had there been a Nazi angle to the S&M, the NOTW would've been quite justified. Why? On the grounds that it's only OK to invade privacy if it's a really fucking good story?

 

[swears]

If he'd actually been at some sort of far-right BNP style meeting, then that would have been in the public interest... But this?

I think we'd all rather not know, haha.