Posts by Phil Lyth
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David, nice to see you emerge today from the shadows of the blogsphere, here and at NBR.
Paul, up-thread I did invite comment on two possible new approachs to defamation. Craig responded: would you care to?
Giovanni, for the record, Farrar has blogged her name since 2005. I always took the transition to CK to be seamless. Indeed, the Short Man even posted a photo of the two of them together. (Pic has disappeared somewhere over the years, leaving only a file name)
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But look how few, very few, comments the whale gets on his posts. The only reason I would want to go there is to see those low numbers.
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Mr David Cohen at the NBR writes in his column this is not a blog post about the Hong Kong-based blogress and finds Mr Russell Brown to be "surprisingly miffed"
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you don't want to get me started on what's wrong with defamation law and (IMHO, of course) vexatious litigants who use the courts to try and bully their critics into S-ingTFU
No, wouldn't want to get Craig started at any time. But would you consider talking about possible new approaches?
Steven Price over at Media Law Journal proposes An Alternative to Defamation, saying in part:
What about an ACC-like trade off where we dump defamation laws in exchange for a statutory reputation complaints tribunal with a first-tier mediation arm? The primary remedy would be a speedy mediated correction, clarification, or agreed statement.
Stephen Franks on the other hand blogs and has a draft bill to ensure, he says:
People who inflict cost on others with meritless threats of legal action should know before they start that they’ll wear those costs as well as their own, if they don’t or can’t substantiate their claims.
What views on these alternatives? Asking because a few people are knocking around the idea of a possible Members Bill on the matter in this Parliament.
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whether David Cunliffe
You'd never know it from the banner ads plus TV commercials (135!!!) but Cunliffe and a third MP are apparently to debate English on the first program.
BSA? The pathetically weak ASA? Come on.
Far more effective scrutiny has been achieved in 24 hours through the media and Parliament. Even the BSA takes around nine months to arrive at the simplest of decisions. The disinfectant of sunshine is particularly useful when it is used speedily.
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Wow, did I get taken for a newbie there. Took the post @9.07pm as an actual question, rather than rhetorical as it obviously was.
Wow, didn't that escalate quickly towards Total Thermonuclear Devastation.
Wow, I must realise that in addition to reading the bits of the newspaper that interest me, I must also read all the irrelevant bits so I can recognise the name of everyone who writes things I don't need/want to know about.
(Resumes repose on sickbed)
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Wow. I did cc: John Roughan. Let's see what happens.
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Am asking the question of the Peter Calder you linked to at NZ Herald.
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May he get arthritis. Especially in his tongue
That would be Actinobacillosis or wooden tongue
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statistically significant
Falls Prevention, Tai Chi, disagreement, URLs, etc
Just to make the point that while researchers can do studies till they are blue in the face, it is a mistake to think that hard data is always available.
My dear Mum did the Falls Prevention thing with the visiting physio. Due to the early stages of dementia (unrecognised at that point), any data collected from her would have best been consigned to
Marianas Trench
By the way, it is amazing the people I run into at the dementia unit, they visiting their parents and me visiting Mum.