I am grateful to the Minister for taking us through this matter. The problem comes when a body—not a person—sends a threatening letter to an ordinary member of the public. Were I to go to a pop concert and be abused by security staff, and then tell my friends not to go to anything organised by those people, and if they then issued and served a writ, what chance would I have, with no money? Do I go straight to court and say, “They’ve shown no loss. Cut it out. They are not a person. They’ve got no feelings. They should not be allowed to do it.”?
Defamation Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Bottomley
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 16 April 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Defamation Bill.
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