Not quite. The definition of a libel is a statement that "tends to lower the claimant in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally".
So if I called Lord Bracknell a badger-baiter, for example, everyone on here would probably think it was just a bit of banter and wouldn't...
Are you JOKING?
The most ill I've ever been at a football match was that game on new year's day 2001 which kicked off at 12. Darren Freeman scored, and I think we won, but it was still SADISTIC TORTURE HELL.
I think the Scots and the Chinese should have a joint holiday on Jan 25th, to mark the Chinese new year and Rabbie Burns' birthday.
A sort of Chinese Burns night.
I'm not a royalist, but I like the State Opening of Parliament. I was watching it just now, with an egg sandwich, actually.
It's a reminder that we live in a democracy. Yes, Brenda could go against the will of our democratically elected MPs, but that notion is about as relevant as ermine, white...
I don't think MYOB drives a Delorean. I think he's an Irish bloke in his twenties who has what he thinks to be quite a nice job. He likes Guinness and rugby.
Libel actions are also used often as an empty threat. Remember Bellotti when he tried to sue Roy Chuter? And, for that matter, Andy Naylor and the publishers of that fanzine?
They are MASSIVELY expensive actions to take as well as to defend, there's no legal aid (so you are always saddled with...
It did occur to me that there was no law preventing 20,000 Scotland and Australia rugby fans sitting together at Hampden yesterday.
However, when Queen's Park play Alloa (or whoever) in the same stadium at football, the 200 or so supporters will, by law, have to sit apart.