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Originally Posted by icsys
Joking aside... where does everyone stand now in light of this information?
(With still more to come)
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well its all good for any small claim county court case you might bring OC.
you might even manage to get the court to order a full documents disclosure and without those pesky blacked out bits and many more unreleased documents and Emails besides, so you can better make your case before the court.
a single small claims win doesnt give you a Precedent (Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases).
but many private SC's against the ISPs hitting the courts at the same time, so overloading the lower courts (as in the case of the Bank charges)can find the better supported evidence cases be pushed up the court system to the upper courts and perhaps even to the High court itself i beleave, and that would give everyone that Precedent.
OC the ISPs might first be forced into Concession due to the death by a thousand cuts or the old "water torture"
thats not so good in the long run for everyone, as it doesnt put a direct legal ruling in the path of any other companies that might try something like it in the future.
i do think theres lots of mileage of the
http://www.lawdit.co.uk/reading_room...20Stanford.htm ruling though, just the real possibility that a named executives and the team that initiated or authorised this, can infact find themselves personally on the hook for RIPA violations if someone names them in a court case must be werth a few lines in any Letter before action (LBA) small claim case.
spot:see them run