[WikiEN-l] Legal threats

[Sarah]

On 7/14/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:05:53 +0100, David Boothroyd
> ><david at election.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >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.
> >
I must admit I did wonder who had done the digging around on GLF, and
why. The article about the incident under discussion is, as I recall,
from 16 years ago or thereabouts.

Sarah