Brilliant, a legal mess

I am a lawyer doing a favour for a friend. As such, I will try to inject a little bit of common sense here.

Current situation is this:

- Just Landed runs open forums for people moving country so some individuals use one of these forums to post comments about a person (rightly or wrongly).
- This then gets attention from some other different (maybe) people with other complaints.
- The person referenced sees this and (understandably) gets annoyed. If the allegations are false, this is clearly not on. If true, as claimed by quite a few anonymous posters (why do people allow anonymous postings!), I guess it is still annoying to have the past easily accessible on the Internet.
- The person referenced then post lots of copyrighted articles with legal cases from other websites which are meant to support his case to have protection from defamation. It also looks like the person who is claiming defamation is busy doing some of their own in same forum about other posters using their real names and a pseudonym to make the post (after complaining about anonymous posting).

I guess that this forum may not continue to exist. As it might be attracting some useful attention, please can anyone with some real proof that the individual concerned has ever done anything illegal or been convicted as such? Post a link to documentation if appropriate. I am sorry I cannot provide contact details, but I work for a law firm and cannot act without authorisation from the boss (who will not give it if we don't bill or it is a 'social cause' - neither of which will happen in this case).

Laura 29 Mar 2007, 06:09 - Report