High Court Issues First Writ via Twitter
Guido’s solicitor is another fighting Irishman, Donal Blaney, pictured here to the right of Karl Rove. Donal is on something of a roll at the moment,* fresh from re-stocking Guido’s wine-cellar after winning a dispute with a multi-national media giant, he has today succeeded in getting the High Court to grant its first ever injunction via “Twitter”. The order, now to be known as the “Blaney’s Blarney Order” after the name of the blog that applied for it – forces an anonymous Twitter user to stop posting and identify themselves.
The order was granted because Donal (who blogs on Blaney’s Blarney) successfully argued that the fake Twitterer was attempting to impersonate him. Given that neither the High Court nor Donal knew the true identity of this user it was decided that the injunction be served via Twitter.
Matthew Richardson, the barrister who devised and won the Blaney’s Blarney Order, says “The Blaney’s Blarney Order is a huge step forward in preventing anonymous abuse of the Internet. People have to learn that they can no longer hide behind the cloak of anonymity the Internet provides and break the law with impunity.”
Some argue that it is wrong for a libertarian to use the law to defend their reputations in Court. Guido has never agreed with that argument, your reputation is a valuable property worth defending in the Courts if necessary.
“to the right of Karl Rove.”
What a position
a position not unlike having your head stuck up an elephants arse, only less pleasant
Perhaps better than “on top of Karl Rove”. Or even possibly “Jammed deep in the butt cheeks of Karl”
Ooch, too graphic TT
Bit of a loose Gannon….
Libertarian? go fuck your own authoritarian arse, you traitorous bastard.
So are you saying if someone wants to sue a commentator on this blog he can serve a writ via the comments Blog?
If you search, you might find some.
http://chat.kalvis.com/
Happy Day! The Dorries case must be about to proceed
Don’t be shy Guido tell us all about it because we’re dying to know
let’s hope not or I would be like totally fucked.
innit.
I think you’ll be OK tat, at least until you reach the age of legal majority – a good while off yet, I suspect…
Yeah TaT-your gonna have to pay for independent medical experts to prove that bloggers you don’t agree with are cripples, etc.
No.
YES!!
Not easy with this Guido. Don’t seem very libertarian.
Lol.
Believe that cretanoid bullshit if you wish Guido. Personally, I find it reprehensible.
It wasnt me.
Prove it!
Brilliant.
So if the unknown twitter user fails to comply with the injunction, how is it enforced?
They will tell him again. :)
They will indeed tell him again but the next time they will SHOUT! So there.
He will be forcibly added to the most annoying pro-NHS twitter lists until he gives up
Use a proxy server?
I caught Guido masturbating – it was the perfume!
so are you! so stop bragging you weak minded tosser!
Independent says Milliband or what ever this foreign secretarty is called has called a tory an ex nazi eric pickles a tory or something and william hague supports him
Right line up new Labour and lock them up in the courts for a long time!! they are destroying the reputation of the U.K
http://newslion.blogspot.com/
Quite. When I travel to the USA I now take my own sandwiches
How far do the irish courts think their jurisdiction goes?
Can I get an injunction against a foreigner in a foreign land doing something that is legal there but not in Ireland?
I know – the courts can cut all irelands international internet links… that’ll stop them all.
If you don’t like the freedom of the internet get the fuck off it.
Well if we knew who you were, we could impersonate you on the internet in whatever manner we choose and you could laugh it off and be fine regardless of what we said.
Could you please therefore provide full details of who you are so this can be done immediately.
I am impersonating myself already – try to compete and I’ll sue.
If I wear a condom online and post on an Irish blog is this legal? Will I get the full whack. Can they give full discharge? Do I get any comeback?
There’s the Irish solution to an Irish problem.
Use the pagan English facilities…
I think they’ll ask you to split.
He went to Court because someone was taking the piss out of him?
Business must be slow.
If Gordon had a penny for every time that happened to him, he would be richer than Blair.
Actually he has just won what will be a famous victory against an old enemy known to you.
When will we know who, Guido?
Dolly or Damien?
It’s the internet. It’s not real life. Someone was making fun of him. So what? He really thinks that he’ll deter them by rising to the bait? Has the High Court really got nothing better to do? How is this a famous victory?
it’s self promotion not actually anything of value
Depends, Jimmy old boy… Let’s face it, the Nasty Party are looking so flakey and desperate, I wouldn’t be shocked if those e-mails mocking David Cameron’s dead baby came straight from Number 10…
Well obviously given his own experiences he’s going to regard dead babies as a hoot.
Get help.
Surely not Timnus Eire?
“Won” an unopposed application against an allegedly unidentified person against whom they may have obtained a novel order for substuted service of the injunction but they wont be able to issue the claim against an unidentified person nor serve it by twitter. Its taken 20 years to get the rules changed to allow service by fax.
NB Law Society website says that Blaney is a legal manager.
A parasitic legal?
Are we going to hear more about your famous victory at any time in the near future Guido?
It was him.
shouldn’t be long then before you have to log on to the internet via a retina scan, that’ll keep you perverts in order
your mum didn’t complain
Is that why Gordo ignores the resign petition?
Clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right.
We’re stuck in the middle with Guido?
They say you can judge someone’s character by the company they keep.
What does that say about this blog and its rabid right-wing/libertarian fruitcake following, when they’re proud to be associated with the extremist Karl Rove?
We like winners.
McCain lost
Rove wasn’t McCain’s campaign adviser.
Very true
Roves triumph was keeping Dubya in the Whitehouse for 8 years
beloved statesman and iconic intellectual
we all remember him most fondly
Even though Karl Rove is known in the US for his brutal, hateful, personal campaigns against Democratic politicians?
What do you mean “even though”?
Your point?
Someone was mean to a Democrat, call the ICC!
I think we need the Whaaambulance for FS
“Fabian solutions”.
Is that some kind of euphemism for “mass murder” or “economic suicide”?
Worse than that, Mate… Google Edward Carpenter, and find out where the Labour Party really came from!
Like the Pee Dee fascist fucks?
At least you have a good solicitor Guido. Good choice!
you are truly full of shit, Guido
I’m more of a lemon drizzle man, Fabian.
well, as retorical questions go, it probably says we have more taste than someone associated with , ooh, lets say tom watson, dolly draper, mcbride, etc etc !
47. backwoodsman – Don’t forget prezza and bob aintbustinagut!
Help I’m being stereotyped!
What wrong with being libertarian?
Do lefty tossers like you really hate freedom that much?
go jump off a tall building you pointless cretin !.
Start the sentence with a capital letter. Put an ‘and’ between “go” and “jump”. A comma after ‘building’ would have been good. End the sentence with a full stop or an exclamation mark. Not both.
shan’t !.!….!
shant .!.!.!.!
Interesting enough but what about the recent rash of secret injunctions and media gagging doing the rounds at the moment? I’d love an Irish blogger or some other connected non-UK news site to pick up some of these allegations and air them to non-UK residents on the internet – if of course they meet the public interest test.
Of course I’d never dream of inciting anyone to break the UK law or defy a high court judge. That would leave me in contempt of the same court – if I were a UK citizen rather than a Tanzanian national since 1967.
Rather I encourage non-UK outlets and non-UK citizens to dig and dish the dirt for all us interested ex-pats.
Libertarians will fight to the death for Freedom of Speech
(unless of course I’m too thin skinned and find it offensive)
you’re a cun’t
You will be hearing from my solicitor as soon as I find one nutty enough
I think he wrote “chump”
you want a piece of my nutbag Lawyer too ?
I’m defenceless because I can’t afford a solicitor-carry on
Didn’t you mean Chump?
Ah, you first sir.
You can hide your identity if you want by using a made up name but to use someone elses is totaly wrong.
I would never post anything I was not prepared to use my real name.
I use JohnnY Norfolk for a bit of fun.
What if, for the sake of argument, someone else had quite innocently chosen the same made up name as you? How would you get him to stop using it as your mates are beginning to think you are boring since he is posting drivel?
You could ask him nicely but generally the usual reaction is, FUCK OFF I was using it first!
You don’t want to change your name because you’ve built up a reputation and are “respected” by other members of the online community and here is this newbie passing himself as you.
You can’t give him a slap obviously. Anyway he might be a lot bigger than you.
So it’s nice to know that there is a posse of lawyers just itching to make a name and a buck for themselves in Cyber Law.
BTW “Johnny” you have been served. See attachment.
Geedo did a very good job of hiding his identity….
Hey Guido: is the judgment granting the order reported anywhere?
Out of purely professional interest, you understand
I assume it’s ex parte, so unlikely.
It wouldn’t be the first time such a judgment was reported, if the Judge deemed it of sufficient interest. This is pretty ground-breaking stuff.
And to think I thought it an exciting development in the march of communciations technology when my mate John P. got dumped by text
It occurs to me that in the circumstances, Blaney’s affidavit (or whatever its called nowadays) would have to disclose fully any negative aspects of his reputation that might be relevant to his case, as it’s an ex parte. He will now be serving this on someone who has been winding him up anonymously on the internet. Is this man a genius or what?
Dunno – imagine soon.
Check the Times Law Reports for the next few days.
MotCO: You could try http://www.bailii.org or ‘phone the High Court and ask to purchase a copy of the transcript.
Thanks for the tips: already had a look on Bailii. Am at MotCO Towers at the mo. – will have a gander at Lawtel and Westlaw upon dragging idle posterior into the slave pits on the morrow.
Progress at last. next up: Chambers stop exchanging documents by fax horror.
What is an ‘fax’?
Anfax is an acute disease caused by Bacillus anthracis.
See? I’m a product of the Nulab “Eduction” system, I owe it all to Crash Gordon.
It’s a disease which makes rabbits blind. Akin to masturbation in humans.
You mean that lawyers succeeded in expressing themselves in no more than 140 characters?????
We ninja lawyers do it in haiku, these days.
It’s the latest thing
A potential disaster for their fee structure, Sir WW. They’ll have to start charging by the letter, like Scrabble.
Ah, but Guido is no libertarian really, he’s just a state capitalist who likes drugs and making trouble (the latter an endeavor I applaud).
Your reputation is not your property – it exists in the minds of others.
There’s much from real libertarians on this issue, I recall Walter Block providing a good treatment of this.
“Your reputation is not your property ”
Oh yes it is. You tell lies about someone and they can sue. End of.
I notice the advert on this site that allows you to register for Fringe event details. In the case of the Fuckwittery undertaken at the Labour conference this week should that not have been better termed for them as “Cringe event details?”
I was at Southampton Uni with Donal, good man. See him round Fulham occasionally
I went to school with him. I almost feel sorry for punishing him for sneaking out to watch his beloved Liverpool lose a European match on TV. Almost…it was Liverpool after all.
He was actually a very pleasant chap from what I recall though.
So was I. I remember Donal’s polite, but incisive, baiting of the right-on Student Union president in SU meetings with considerable fondness…
Fighting irish, your’e not wrong there pal
So some Twat Tweeted a Tweet on Twitter.
Slow news day?
Wait until the Maily Telegraph gets hold of this story.
Hack: “Editor! Editor! I’ve got yet another story about Twitter, and guess what! It has a blogging angle to it, too! We can quote bloggers’ opinions, as if they were really informed and interesting!”
Editor: Fuckin’ sweet!
HARRIET Harman finally admitted Labour are on the brink of defeat today, warning the Tories are already “measuring up for the curtains in Downing Street.”
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/131285
Health warning — Picture of Mad hattie is visible.
my god she’s ugly
Hmmm. The camera didn’t do her any favours there. She looks like Nikki Lauda. Did she have a kitchen fire or something?
Harriet Harman is one of the reasons why Labour are on the brink of defeat. Not to mention Peter Mandelson, Ed Balls and the rest of the cabinet.
Look at her cheek. She’d have been wiser not to put herself in Snotty’s arc of fire when he’s bogeyflicking – he select only the tenderest, juiciest produce and discards that which does not pass his stringent acceptance criteria willy-nilly.
reassuringly rotund.
I mean uhh, well fed. no, prosperous.
Christ what a slim good looking fella.
It’s great news, but I am still a fat wanker.
Now you can be the first person ever served on Guido
actually guido does this apply to just the blog owner or anyone? could balls, mandelson, brown, blair and all the other cretins who people regularly impersonate on this site start action against the person doing it. Could imagine balls being petty enough to do it.
Holy shit
Takes ‘Spartacus’ to a whole new level
Todays new Yougov poll, has the tory lead shoot back up to 14% from 7% yesterday.
Brown, yup you are screwed, if the tories have a 14% lead or more going into the conferences, the knifes will be out for you.
Yougov poll asked, Do you agree with the sun supporting the tories saying that Labour has lost its way.
64% said yes and a further 61% said that the newspaper endorsement was important for them.
http://www.yougov.co.uk/extranets/ygarchives/content/pdf/Thursday_01.pdf
full details.
What a pity it is that it has taken the Sun twelve years to learn the error of its ways. Maybe it hasn’t learned at all, but is just abandoning the sunken ship.
Oh dear Faby baby,
Fabian_Solutions says:
October 1, 2009 at 4:23 pm
They say you can judge someone’s character by the company they keep.
hat tip politicalBetting CON 40% LAB 26% LD 20%
Still 26%. What kind of utter fucking morons are these people? Where do they hide? How do they shield their self-harming idiocy from others? Why have they not walked under a bus or fallen into a dry dock by now?
Or taken the toaster into the bath ‘to warm up the water’?
What kind of unobservant imbeciles are these people?
How is it possible to be so stupid and not forget to breathe?
Jgm2
wind down a bit you will have a heart attack,it’s a poll,the real polls will start next month after the conferences.
One of them was behind me yesterday in a queue.
Clearing his sinuses and doing the mouthopenbreathing trick all at the
same time. Oh and he was ugly. And smelly.
You may have met The Hitch.
http://labourhome.org/ seems currently to be down
Tee hee
“People have to learn that they can no longer hide behind the cloak of anonymity the Internet provides”
And how long did Guido Fawkes fight to keep his real name from public knowledge?
You could have found out what Guido’s real name was 6months after he started this blog,the lefties were attacking him then,any they are still having a go at him.
Quite right your reputation is everything and the lies and smears that are put out by people of opposing political views are driven by politically motivated hate, which appears to be a powerful driving force.
Having been a public blogger for a while on various public discussion boards I found very quickly that I could be labelled a paedophile for not saying the Prime Mentalist was wonderful and saved the world.
In the two weeks since we started our own blog the allegations have continued and we have been accused of being obscene on some sites.
Are writs and legal action the correct way to deal with this sort of scum?
Methinks a kick boxing lesson might do them more good
I am sure you understand it guido , but i am not sure if it is a blow for liberty or vanity , Impersonating someone for pecuniary interest is one thing or even the kudos of blagging , All I can say is Donal charge will be interesting , i mean there must be more than one Donal Blaney on the planet perhaps even one who is also a solcitor .
if he/she/it was twittering as donal on donals cases then yeah I can see that
we shall see what hes on about
Great result for you both. However the poor man in the street still gets dumped on from a great height by the power elite in Parliament. That said serf’s are serf’s in any power hungry State, such is their status in life of a New Labour Government. Come the election lets see if anything changes in this Democratic Nation we all supposedly hold dear.
O/t, what about the Irish vote to ratify the Lisbon treaty. There has been fuck all on tthe MSM which is suspiciously like a ‘d’ notice job to prevent dissention building.
Come on you Irish, you fought for hundreds of years against the domination of England over you – if you allow this travesty to happen we’re all up the creek.
Vote no brothers of the British Isles.
Fucking nonsense. Donal Blaney is a pompous smug arsehole from the highest order of wankers. No doubt this is to soften us up for the news that Guido will henceforth be ‘naming and shaming’ the posters whose views he disagrees with or are insufficiently oleaginous in their praise of him or are not quite obsequious enough at the altar of rabid right wing ‘red in tooth and claw’ total lack of market supervision libertarian capitalism no matter how much it fucks our humanist instincts.
“Too many twits might make a twat” [copyright David Cameron]
Too many chimps might make a chump. (c) Peter “Brazil Nuts” Mandelson
Would that be this Matthew Richardson?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/feb/19/highereducation.students
I remember reading about the China stunt, through it was ingenious.
Congratulations to Donal Blaney on his victory. Mind you, it doesn’t stop me from thinking he’s a complete Hoon.
[...] Many thanks to that drunken Scottish bastard Rantin’ Rab for alerting me to this. [...]
Okay, tell us about the wine…………go on, we know you want to!!!!! :0)
Hey Guido I’ve got a video of you takin a dump and I’m gonna spread it all over the internet, how’s that for a smear campaign?
Right. Now this legal precedent is established I’m issuing an injunction against that Hoon who used to masquerade as The Real Peter Hitchens.
Anyone know who he is ???
[...] Continued here: High Court Issues First Writ via Twitter [...]
And people wonder why the rest of us hate lawyers.
What a bellend.
I’m Blaney’s Blarney, and so’s my wife
Adieu Guido
[...] Guido Fawkes [...]
You are a treacherous Hoon Guido, but mo longer on my computer. I am sure the Lisbon treaty is right up your street
Your “High Court” ruling means nothing to me in the U.S.
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