Posts under ‘defamation’

By facilitating the dissemination of information to an extent far beyond any technology that has come before it, the Internet has enabled businesses to reach a global market more easily than ever before, given rise to the phenomenon of social networking, provided instant, easy access to knowledge and experience in every field, and turned connected [...]

We have previously written about anonymity online here in relation to Norwich Pharmacal orders in the UK, it is a very topical subject, lying at the intersection of freedom of speech, and defamation law. Now recent events have brought a related activity, termed CyberSLAPPing, back into the limelight. If you hadn’t heard, to CyberSLAPP is [...]

The incident involving Community Trade Mark Filing Service and defamation threats has been thought provoking on many levels. Only recently I wrote an article on online reputation monitoring for the Society of Computers and Law magazine.  (The article is accessible to members, and at £50 per annum, membership is excellent value). In the article I [...]

I think it’s worth looking at what has happened here given the allegations of defamation. It all started when I posted a tweet on Twitter mentioning that 3 clients had received CTMFS’ ‘invoices’. Ending with the word ‘scams’. If Mr Evans’ intention was to stop the use of the word ‘scam’ in relation to the [...]

When I wrote the postscript about the Community Trade Mark Filing Service, I assumed that would be the end of it. Obviously I had not understood Mr Evans. Having now received a solicitors’ letter in which they have even attempted to frighten me by making accusations of breaching Law Society Codes of Conduct for publishing [...]