There is little chance it will go to court, but will instead be
settled by quite a large out of court payment (probably to a charity
of his choice).
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>"GB" <NOTsome...@microsoft.com> wrote in message >news:509d502e$0$1147$5b6aafb4@news.zen.co.uk...
>> On 09/11/2012 17:55, Jacob Von Hogflume wrote:
>>> McAlpine to take legal action. Bet he loses.
>No-one at the BBC claimed that he was the person they were referring to,
There was sufficient information to make it clear.
>and it certainly wasn't common knowledge that it was he was the one.
>Other people made that link, and if he wants to sue anyone it has to be >them,
No it doesn't.
They are the ones who show that there *was* sufficient information in
what Newsnight said.
>But I don't hold out much hope of him identifying them
He won't need to.
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> On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:17:33 -0000, "tim....."
> <tims_new_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>"GB" <NOTsome...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:509d502e$0$1147$5b6aafb4@news.zen.co.uk...
>>> On 09/11/2012 17:55, Jacob Von Hogflume wrote:
>>>> McAlpine to take legal action. Bet he loses.
>>>"GB" <NOTsome...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>news:509d502e$0$1147$5b6aafb4@news.zen.co.uk...
>>>> On 09/11/2012 17:55, Jacob Von Hogflume wrote:
>>>>> McAlpine to take legal action. Bet he loses.
>>>No-one at the BBC claimed that he was the person they were referring to,
>> There was sufficient information to make it clear.
>Really,
>I had absolutely no idea from the information reported afterwards (I didn't >see the actual report so maybe there was some extra stuff)
And?
Whether any specific individual knew ort not is irrelevant.
If there was sufficient information to enable a number of people to
identify him, and at least some of those people would be likely to
think less of him as a result, that is enough for libel purposes.
-- Alex Heney, Global Villager
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>>>>"GB" <NOTsome...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:509d502e$0$1147$5b6aafb4@news.zen.co.uk...
>>>>> On 09/11/2012 17:55, Jacob Von Hogflume wrote:
>>>>>> McAlpine to take legal action. Bet he loses.
>>>>>"GB" <NOTsome...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:509d502e$0$1147$5b6aafb4@news.zen.co.uk...
>>>>>> On 09/11/2012 17:55, Jacob Von Hogflume wrote:
>>>>>>> McAlpine to take legal action. Bet he loses.
