On 23/05/06, David Boothroyd david@election.demon.co.uk wrote:
"Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com writes:
Do we perhaps also need to create the subcategory [[Category:Living persons liable to sue]]?
Unfortunately in English law it is potentially actionable to call someone litigious.
To be fair, in English law it's potentially actionable to sneeze, if you pick the wrong moment.
(Past - now obsolete - court precedents have held that it is libellous to say that a man was a Catholic and attended mass, or that he was German, though more recent precedents have held that it is not de facto libellous to state that he shared a bed with another man. Imputing unchastity in a woman might still trip you up, though)