Pre-Action Protocol For Defamation

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

My vacation on Reggie’s Temptress around the islands of Madeira now seems a distant memory so I may have been better served skirt chasing in my Porsche on the Cote d’Azur.

We’ve received lots of support on our 25th August post ‘Not For Publication’ so thanks to all who wrote in and rang the office.

What amazes us is how the legal profession figure you can drop everything and answer them instantly. We had another solicitor’s letter today (I promise you the next one we get we will publish) which had the arrogance to think that we were referring to them in our last post.

Today’s missive said “On the same day that we sent our letter to you by email, you posted a comment on your Daily Dooh website which referred to ‘solicitor’s letters being received from individuals in the industry who really should know better.’ We take this to be a reference to our letter“.

Let me you tell you Mr. Legal Eagle (1) it’s DailyDOOH not ‘Daily Dooh’, (2) it’s a ‘post’ not a comment and (3) you can take it as a “reference to your letter” as much as you like but don’t think you are the only ones who like trying to suit the DailyDOOH.

We will answer all of our business correspondence when we can be bothered to get round to it.


4 Responses to “Pre-Action Protocol For Defamation”

  1. Tom Milner Says:

    These are the sorts of posts that I need to be able to ‘like’! 😀

  2. Ken Goldberg Says:

    Feathers were ruffled by your opinions: mission accomplished. Readers engaged.

    A solicitor seems self-important: how unusual. Readers amused.

    You are angry, the saga continues. Readers await.

    You could always choose to glad hand everyone and take all PR claims as truth and beauty. I suspect readers would be bored.

  3. Hardnut Says:

    The only net beneficiaries in all of this are m’ learned colleagues. Arbitration is better than confrontation. Let it rest Adrian. Move on and don’t dignify your organ with online responses!

  4. Mark Solomon Says:

    “…you posted a comment on your Daily Dooh website which referred to ‘solicitor’s letters being received from individuals in the industry who really should know better.’ We take this to be a reference to our letter“.

    So – whilst they may or may not be the party in question – their solicitor is willing concede that their client (whoever they may be) should know better.

    Which is rather like saying “I understand that the parties my firm is acting for are acting like asses, but they’re paying our bills so G&T’s all round.”

    I had no idea that the Lionel Hutz character in The Simpsons was based on real people.

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