[WikiEN-l] Saucy Sources, reliable and re : libel.

[geni]

On 15/11/2007, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> From our article on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act of 1974:
>
> Rehabilitation Act and actions for libel under British law
>
> According to Law and the Media, a reference work relating to British media
> law, if a person can prove that the details of a spent conviction were
> published with malice, then the publisher may be subject to libel damages
> regardless of whether the details were true or not. This applies where the
> publisher is relying on a defence of qualified privilege or justification.
>

I'm not sure how well you would do trying to argue that a wikipedia
editor gets qualified privilege. Somehow I doubt you would get very
far.


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geni