Not relevant, unless the chat room is located in England and Wales. Say
(for example) a Wikipedia user in Scotland posting a defamatory (slander
and libel are rolled into a single delict [tort] in Scotland -
defamation) statement to Wikipedia, whose servers are located in
Florida. The England & Wales courts wouldn't have jurisdiction over
this. Who WOULD is a question that hasn't really been solved to my
knowledge, but it would EITHER be the Scottish courts or the Florida
courts - or potentially the pursuer [plaintiff] could have the choice of
where to sue, but the England and Wales courts would in either case be
out of the equation - regardless of the fact that the defender has
assets in England & Wales, the 'wrong' occured either in Scotland or in
Florida - unless the posting was to a chatroom in England & Wales but
that is not the case with Wikipedia.
Cynical
geni wrote:
On 3/27/06, David Alexander Russell
<webmaster(a)davidarussell.co.uk> wrote:
This does NOT apply to UK editors - the decisions
of the High Court of
England and Wales are only binding in (strangely enough) England and
Wales. This decision does not alter the position in the rest of the UK
(ie Northern Ireland, and Scotland, both of whom have separate courts
from England and Wales)
Cynical
Even if you live in scotland there is a fair chance that you have
assets in england and wales . Of course if you don't have any assets
you don't need to worry anyway.
--
geni
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