Posted by Peter Hyland on April 17, 2007 at 13:07:32 from 217.42.255.138 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Netiquette (a Moral Framework for the Internet) posted by Peter Roche on April 17, 2007 at 12:37:21:
What area of common law, if any, would have applied?
Actions for defamation are rooted in Common Law. As far as I know, there is no Common Law rule concerning vexatious litigation. There used to be some control over it in the old Rules of Court, but it was not very effective, as AR and his publishers discovered.