Overview

The recent case of Applause Store Productions v Raphael — the ‘Facebook case’ — received a huge amount of publicity. Although it heralded no change in the law, two key points of website defamation were reinforced: that there are ways to trace the identity of some anonymous internet posters in order to bring them to justice, and that the courts will apply serious penalties to those posting defamatory material on the internet.

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