Web suits
The internet is a library of useful, useless and sometimes damaging information and this is causing concern for the legal fraternity.
We’ve all heard of the spread of child pornography by the internet. Charges have been laid by police in cases of this sort but where are the enforceable laws to convict?
There seems to be nothing to stop someone from setting up a website to insult acquaintances.
“Tommy Pfluggo’s mother chews snoose.”
I guess Tommy could hire a lawyer, who would research cases and decide nothing could be done. Then Tommy would receive a bill for the lawyer’s fee.
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Internet admirers will tell you this medium is the ultimate in freedom of expression. Those who talk that way are overlooking one thing – if your freedom of expression unjustly causes a fellow human a loss of the high public regard previously enjoyed, such “freedom” becomes oppression.
Our legal eagles are working diligently to pin down how this gap in the law can be rectified.
There are too many ways of working scams on the worldwide web to leave it unregulated. It is also a new area of litigation on which a young lawyer can build a career.
Our Canadian lawyers used to enjoy cases that were appealed to the British House of Lords with all the wig and gown work that entailed. Repatriating the constitution ended all that.
Now maybe the opportunity will arise to travel internationally on worldwide web appeals.
That is, unless our software sages work out means to conduct a legally binding presentation of evidence and judgments on the computer.
