RE: Remember the potatoes...7 May 2021 14:30
ah cbaron, there you are again. first while i have no particular pride of authorship in my previous post, it was nonetheless from my own hand. of course all cases require evidence and that shouldn't prove too difficult in this imagined case. after that i'm afraid you go off the rails a bit. the case here would be brought by one or more of GB founders. the fact that Bob R is also a director of Panr just makes his defamation more insidious. and no need for loss or damage, just likelihood of serious harm to his reputation. given the nature of the statement made and its implications, establishing likelihood of such harm would hardly be problematic. as to the statement itself, it was clearly published and read by who knows how many 3rd parties (and there are easily enough witnesses to that. it being subsequently deleted therefore would only be a minor hindrance. quite possibly an order for its discovery could be obtained against lse.)
what's the point of all this - well you said 'malicious falsehood' was 'very dramatic', so i'm answering you - this was a slamdunk libel. believe it or not a number of successful cases have been brought against abusers of social media platforms. the question i can't fathom here is why, down in the barrack room, you're quite so interested in finding flaws in the case against this guy? mind you on the evidence so far, he would be well advised not to hire you!