Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
When critics attack
Individuals associated with the Enmore Spiritualist Church have
become the victim of several inaccurate websites and comment
posts on the internet.
Members of the Church have tried to advise
strangers who got caught up in the battle, to at the very least seek
legal advice (now available at no cost from most solicitors. legal
advice centres or a chamber magistrate) before making remarks on a
subject they know little about.
It's worth noting some responses to similar cases:
In Australia tweets have become the basis for defamation cases.
Liberal Party pollsters Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor are suing federal Labor MP Mike Kelly for defamation over a tweet in which he accused their campaign consulting firm of push polling.
Joshua Meggitt, the Melbourne man wrongly named by writer and television identity Marieke Hardy as the author of a hate blog dedicated to her, is now suing Twitter.
In the US, Michiel Oakes, a man convicted of the murder of celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover, has launched an appeal because a 19-year-old juror was tweeting throughout the trial, the Seattle Weekly reported.
In Britain last year, Joanne Fraill became the first juror to be prosecuted for contempt of court for using the internet and was jailed for eight months.
Fraill used Facebook to communicate with a defendant who had already been acquitted, The Guardian reported.
It's worth noting some responses to similar cases:
In Australia tweets have become the basis for defamation cases.
Liberal Party pollsters Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor are suing federal Labor MP Mike Kelly for defamation over a tweet in which he accused their campaign consulting firm of push polling.
Joshua Meggitt, the Melbourne man wrongly named by writer and television identity Marieke Hardy as the author of a hate blog dedicated to her, is now suing Twitter.
In the US, Michiel Oakes, a man convicted of the murder of celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover, has launched an appeal because a 19-year-old juror was tweeting throughout the trial, the Seattle Weekly reported.
In Britain last year, Joanne Fraill became the first juror to be prosecuted for contempt of court for using the internet and was jailed for eight months.
Fraill used Facebook to communicate with a defendant who had already been acquitted, The Guardian reported.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Twitter : the new libel cases
Will Marieke Hardy’s Twitter case change Australian law for ever? Twitter is being sued for defamation by a Melbourne man who was wrongly identified as the author of a “hate blog” directed at writer and TV personality, Marieke Hardy.
update:
ABC star Marieke Hardy settles over false hate blog claims :ABC indie personality Marieke Hardy has reportedly paid $13,000 to a man she wrongly accused of running a hate blog about her.
The out of court settlement was reached after Hardy last week published a retraction on her blog and apologised to Melbourne man Joshua Meggitt after making posts and Tweets claiming he had authored a hate blog about her, reported The Age
**************************************************** A New Zealand cricketer has been awarded £90,000 in damages by the
High Court after suing for libel over a defamatory tweet, in what is
thought to be the first Twitter libel trial heard in England.Chris Cairns, who won 62 Test caps for his country and represented New Zealand on 267 occasions, sued Lalit Modi, the former chairman and commissioner of the Indian Premier League, over an accusation of match-fixing Mr Modi made on the microblogging service.
more at ft.com
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A little over a year ago, Courtney Love made history by becoming the first person to be sued
regarding comments she made on Twitter when designer Dawn Simorangkir
complained the singer depicted her as a thieving, drug-addled prostitute
with violent tendencies on her old @CourtneyLover79 account. Last
March, Love paid Simorangkir a $430,000 settlement, which, on top of
lawyers' fees, is not chump change.more at spin.com
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