Mike Schilling wrote: > If I were to write, say, that Tony Blair's tax policy will lead to higher > deficits, I could be convicted of libel? Even if that's true, it's not a > priori provable.
I think what he was getting at is that, unlike many jurisdictions, writing something factually true is _not_ in and of itself a defense against a libel suit in the UK. As for the reverse side of the issue, in jurisdictions where it _is_ a defense, if one were to accuse him of being a pedophile but couldn't prove it, that would certainly be an actionable offense. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Twenty-four hours a day, three-hundred sixty-five days a year as Secretary of Defense, I lived the Cold War. -- Robert S. McNamara -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
