Congratulations to Simon Singh. If the current judicially imposed arrangement on privacy were enacted into the statute law, but with the burden of proof in libel actions placed on the plaintiff, then who could object to that? And why?
The Simon Singh case has nothing to do with the law of privacy. In fact, defmation law itself is not much to do with the developing law of privacy rights in the UK. There are a lot of criticisms that can be made of the position of both, but they need to be addressed seperately.
Making the privacy law statutory is the price of reversing the burden of proof in libel actions. That is the deal. The corporate media cannot expect your own way all the time.
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Neil Clark.
Why don't you ask him?
The Simon Singh case has nothing to do with the law of privacy. In fact, defmation law itself is not much to do with the developing law of privacy rights in the UK. There are a lot of criticisms that can be made of the position of both, but they need to be addressed seperately.
Making the privacy law statutory is the price of reversing the burden of proof in libel actions. That is the deal. The corporate media cannot expect your own way all the time.
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