[WikiEN-l] Legal threats

[Fred Bauder]

On Jul 14, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Sarah wrote:

> 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

I think there is some motivation to discredit his political viewpoint.

Fred