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Re: [LUG] disclaimer text

 

They used a few more than two, and framed it as a question.

IIRC it did not progress to court.

I would not go overboard, and I'd hope to define a site and group by
what it is rather than what it is not.




On 4 January 2013 11:58, Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Can I suggest a deliberately provocative and simultaneously dismissive
> mockery of a disclaimer? Something akin to Private Eye's "We refer you to
> the case of Arkell v Pressdram", in which they famously replied to a
> specious writ in two words: "Fuck off." -- and then won in court when the
> incensed ambulance-chasing lawyers tried to make something of it. There are
> a lot of litigious gits out there, but the courts are (at least
> occasionally) not idiots.
>
> Those who really are of the ambulance-chasing ilk may (at least
> occasionally) be effectively deterred by the threat of applying to have them
> listed as "vexatious litigants", which (nearly) completely bars them from
> initiating cases.
>
> In other words, legal bottom-feeders are looking for ignorant and frightened
> victims. Show them we're neither and they will indeed fuck off and choose a
> softer target. Add some theatrics and the word will go around very quickly:
> don't chance it bringing these guys into court with a dodgy case, the risk
> to your own rep is too high.
>
> IANAL, but I've spent hundreds of hours in court (look at all those
> parenthetical qualifying subclauses).
>
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