Legal briefing: Web forum users can stay nameless until a court order

Posted by Press Gazette on 6 November 2007 at 01:00
Tags: Journalism, Law

Last month, the High Court ordered the owner of the OwlsTalk forum website for fans of Sheffield Wednesday football club to reveal the true identities of three people who had posted supposedly defamatory comments.

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