[Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the National Portrait Gallery ...

[George Herbert]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/11 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
>> Technically, the user could just ignore this - a lawsuit in a UK court
>> without relevant jurisdiction, under US law as applies, can be
>> ignored.  A default judgement against him might be entered, however,
>> and that might make future travel to Europe difficult.
>
> Would they stop you at the airport to enforce a civil judgement?
> Criminal, certainly, but I'm not sure about civil.

There has been significant discussion about this, relative to UK libel
/ slander claims / lawsuits against US authors or speakers.  I don't
know of anyone who was stopped, but some UK courts have asserted that
they could and would if the defendant didn't show up.


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com