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I'm sorry you are going through this. I'll be blunt. I believe in the UK (as in NZ) a statement of truth or opinion is not defamatory. One would still have to
by freitasm 2y ago
I'm sorry you are going through this.
I'll be blunt. I believe in the UK (as in NZ) a statement of truth or opinion is not defamatory. One would still have to go through the motions though, to prove it.
Reading the blog post I am left with the feeling you are on thin ice. You don't qualify it as an opinion and it doesn't sound you have evidence to support the claims. Screenshots may not suffice. You would need witnesses and statements or documents to prove it.
You will need these if the person unmasks your address and brings a case to court.
As usual IANAL.
- nullc 2y ago> Screenshots may not suffice. You would need witnesses and statements or documents to prove it. Speaking from my own experience, Fortunately in UK civil courts are less aggressive than the US courts on laying foundation for evidence. If evidence is challenged you'll have to fight out the merits of the challenge, to be decided on a more likely than not basis. But it isn't like the US where it's so easy for evidence to be precluded on procedural grounds. OTOH, UK disclosure is way less powerful than US discovery and subponea power. The plus side for the OP is that for the same reason their opponent should have less power to damage them by fishing for private information. Unfortunately, it seems like OP's opponent has managed to buy their way into the best (for them) of all worlds by using US representation to subpoena cloudflare's records. In the UK it's unusual and extremely difficult to force third party disclosure, which means that if OP needs records from someone else to prove their case they may be screwed.