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review website ? legal?

  • 20-12-2010 4:45am
    #1
    tompadraig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Heres one for you fellas hopefully this wont get canned as its a legal question.

    If I have a website which writes reviews of Pub's, and we write that when we visited a pub it was not that busy and the beer was bad etc..

    Are we covered by freedom of speech or could our opinions leave us liable?

    Regards
    Tom


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  • #2
    91011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭91011


    yes - just like boards, newspapers, tv & radio, the publisher can be held liable for defaminous statements published on their media.

    What you need to do is to have comments moderated first and then published to ensure that nothing unsubstantiated is said such as "I was in JJ's pub in ballyanywhere and the vodka was well watered down"

    Unless the site or the person saying this has proof, they would be open to litigation.

    Whereas "I was in jj's pub in ballymac and the guinness was crap" - this is an opinion and is not saying that anything is being done to the guinness and therefore would be fine.


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