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by edenhyacinth 1958 days ago
The judgment alleges that indicating that you believe a company to be a scam - insofar as providing an unsatisfactory service for payment could be considered a scam - is on par with accusing someone of urinating on war memorials.

It even says that couching the statement in an opinion "To me it was a scam" wouldn't be sufficient to avoid this. Would it all have been saved if he'd said "It was like a scam"?

It also says that the claimaint's belief that "after a single review went up, we saw a drop in inquiries" (para) is sufficient for £25,000 of damages! That has to be considered outrageous, surely?