Rules: No Names, No Advice, No Details, No Ads. Keep it Nice

[dls]

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No Names - You are better not naming yourself. We insist that you do not name any third party.
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We _discuss_ the law. We get many things right (and very often better than elsewhere) but also some things wrong. If only you, or I, knew which.

If you want advice, or to give advice, please find a better way. We have a superb mixture of unqualified and qualified people. We have contributors with amazing skills, knowledge, experience and wisdom. Some do not. Some posters cannot see the wood for the trees, and others happily seeking to divine the nature of one tree from a leaf of a neighbouring tree.

Anonymity. It is sensible to remain anonymous. We make no promise of anonymity - courts are perfectly able to order us to disclose what limited records we have of you. Nevertheless, it is sensible to take a username which does not allow you to be identified.

No Privacy. The system allows members to send each other 'PMs' and emails. If you send an email, it leaves our system and control, and we have no access. A PM stays within the system, but is _not_ private. In practice we have no interest in reading them, but there have been occasions when proper complaints have been made about abuse, and the system itself is held in a database which I cannot imagine would be very difficult to hack. There is _no_ client lawyer privilege attached.

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We mean it. Keep it nice

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[atticus]

A further rule - the boss's decision is FINAL. dls owns this board. He is the one who would get sued for defamation etc. If you don't like a decision to remove your post, you may start your own website and post whatever you want there, as long as you are prepared to face the consequences.

By the way, I read at the weekend a report saying that an ever increasing percentage of defamation cases arise from things said on line.

[atticus]

And a reminder that defamatory and gratuitously offensive material will be deleted. If posts cannot be easily edited, then do not be surprised if the whole post goes.

[atticus]

When you register here, you click a button to say you agree to various things. I don't think there is an easy reminder of what these things are, so I have cut and pasted from the registration page.

We have all agreed to all the following. I have put a couple of key sentences in bold.

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