Not relevant, unless the chat room is located in England and Wales. Say (for example) a Wikipedia user in Scotland posting a defamatory (slander and libel are rolled into a single delict [tort] in Scotland - defamation) statement to Wikipedia, whose servers are located in Florida. The England & Wales courts wouldn't have jurisdiction over this. Who WOULD is a question that hasn't really been solved to my knowledge, but it would EITHER be the Scottish courts or the Florida courts - or potentially the pursuer [plaintiff] could have the choice of where to sue, but the England and Wales courts would in either case be out of the equation - regardless of the fact that the defender has assets in England & Wales, the 'wrong' occured either in Scotland or in Florida - unless the posting was to a chatroom in England & Wales but that is not the case with Wikipedia.
Cynical
geni wrote:
On 3/27/06, David Alexander Russell webmaster@davidarussell.co.uk wrote:
This does NOT apply to UK editors - the decisions of the High Court of England and Wales are only binding in (strangely enough) England and Wales. This decision does not alter the position in the rest of the UK (ie Northern Ireland, and Scotland, both of whom have separate courts from England and Wales)
Cynical
Even if you live in scotland there is a fair chance that you have assets in england and wales . Of course if you don't have any assets you don't need to worry anyway.
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