British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 20, 2013 @07:48AM from the truth-as-defense dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "A woman who complained about an unpaid £146 invoice is facing a libel battle that could cost her more than £100,000. Lesley Kemp, 55, took to Twitter claiming that a company based in the Middle East had failed to pay her promptly for transcription work. Now the firm is suing Mrs Kemp, of Milton Keynes, for defamation, claiming up to £50,000 in damages and a further £70,000 in costs. The company, Resolution Productions, based in Qatar, has yet to comment."

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Re:welcome by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-20 08:39 · Score: 2, Funny

How is this capitalism?
This is allowing lawyers, judges and laws to be in control. It's lefty shit.
Lawyers, judges, and laws are the implements of conservatism. Lefty shit would be to run a mob into her home to nonviolently stab her to death.
Re:The Truth is Never Libelous by fibonacci8 · 2013-04-20 10:03 · Score: 4, Funny

http://www.jennycraig.com/

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