Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:05:53 +0100, David Boothroyd david@election.demon.co.uk wrote:
The legal issues relating to Gregory Lauder-Frost have all been considered and there is nothing which would prevent a suitable, balanced, neutral, sourced and factual article being written. In order to be fully comprehensive, it would have to mention, in its proper context, the fact of his 1992 conviction.
According to his fan-club, that would violate the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. That is the entire basis of their legal threats, that the disclosure of the conviction is motivated by malice and is therefore proscribed. This is, of course, complete bollocks in as much as I would not know Lauder-Frost from a hole in the ground, and the editor who did most of the work on the conviction, including paying for a Lexis-Nexis search, is not even British.
re "motivated by malice": One can hardly make this argument successfully if Wikipedia consistently includes this kind of detail about everyone to whom it verifiably applies.
Ec