[WikiEN-l] Legal threats

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG 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.
>
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