Aggro passengers get free flight to jail

[Anna]

The simple case could be argued that anat0l did not specify Australian high court judges, nor did he specify current high court judges.

The legal flaw in that argument is that it's not what s/he intended to refer to that matters. It is how the words are interpreted that matters, and it is a perfectly reasonable interpretation for a plaintiff to allege that the comment was referring to Australian High Court judges.

And sure, I agree, all the living former High Court judges could sue as well as the current ones without increasing the class size beyond what is legally acceptable.

Presumably the owner of this website is aware that as publisher, s/he/it can also be sued for publishing defamatory comments, not just the actual author of the comments.

 

[casanovawa]

Don't lawyers add so much to the discourse on sites with their threats...

and as to harvyk's comment about

coupled with airfares which allow the less affluent of society to fly it is no wonder that these sorts of laws have been brought in

i don't think it matters how fat yoru wallet is, rich knob or poor knob your still a PITA and you deserve the same treatment...

 

[BadgerBoi]

This comment regarding High Court judges is untrue and is defamatory. I suggest this post should be edited.

Who was defamed? Mightn't be factual, but certainly not defamatory.

 

[BadgerBoi]

Don't lawyers add so much to the discourse...

Are you able to provide a link to a thread anywhere as an example?:shock:

 

[Anna]

certainly not defamatory.

There is not a shadow of a doubt that to publish a statement that High Court judges have committed crimes when they have not is defamatory of all current and former High Court judges (the living former ones anyway).

Edit out the words "High Court" from the statement and she's apples.

 

[BadgerBoi]

I guess that whole size matters thing is why the lawyer fraternity themselves haven't taken everyone to the cleaners for the generally less than effusively positive comments made about that particular profession...

you mean for example:
"How do you know when a lawyer is lying?
Her lips are moving"?

They could never sue because they'd have to prove that it's not so.