[WikiEN-l] Legal threats

[George Herbert]

On 7/13/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:05:53 +0100, David Boothroyd
> <david at 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.

It may be in English wikipedians best interests to not contribute to
the article if there's any doubt about the legal implications.  I am
sure we can find non-British editors willing to deal with it.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com