Comments on: This is legal blackmail http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/03/this-is-legal-blackmail/ for free expression Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Pyshnov http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/03/this-is-legal-blackmail/comment-page-1/#comment-1230 Michael Pyshnov Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:18:17 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=1858#comment-1230 Censorship is a cowardly fraud. It prevents public disclosure of various crime more than it prevents anything else. The worst is self-censorship. And the worst in it is that public never knows what was censored. I decided to make one such case known to public. See http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/nature.html Censorship is a cowardly fraud. It prevents public disclosure of various crime more than it prevents anything else. The worst is self-censorship. And the worst in it is that public never knows what was censored. I decided to make one such case known to public. See http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/nature.html

]]> By: D-Notice http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/03/this-is-legal-blackmail/comment-page-1/#comment-1228 D-Notice Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:36:06 +0000 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=1858#comment-1228 "But under this system lawyers can charge a 100 per cent uplift on their fees, creating an absurd situation where legal costs can be 100 times the damages awarded." Are there any examples of this? In any event, the Court will only allow those costs which are considered to be reasonable and proportionate. “But under this system lawyers can charge a 100 per cent uplift on their fees, creating an absurd situation where legal costs can be 100 times the damages awarded.”

Are there any examples of this?

In any event, the Court will only allow those costs which are considered to be reasonable and proportionate.

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