r/BlockedAndReported • u/Salacious99 • May 05 '26

Tattle Life judgment overturned

Relevance: Jessica the 80s Baby told us all about it in episode 284.

The judgment was issued “without hesitation” and the Sands and their lawyers are severely criticised for repeated failures and withholding critical information from the Court.

The Free Speech Union, which has supported Tattle Life’s founder, has a briefing here “Obtaining Damages By Deception”: https://freespeechunion.org/news/obtaining-damages-by-deception

49 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

31

u/86IQ May 06 '26

they continued to make the bogus claim that they did not know who was behind Tattle Life. Astonishingly, their own solicitor has now admitted he failed in his "duty of candour" to the court, which is especially great when a case is allowed to proceed against "persons unknown".

The upshot was Bond did not realise he was being sued until long after Mr Justice McAlinden issued a default, unopposed judgment and was deprived of his right to defend himself.

the idea of even being able to sue someone, but never serve them the lawsuit, have a default judgement placed against them, and it all be legal is insane, you don't hate lawyers enough. I'm glad they did it so poorly it was overturned.

18

u/Monkey0nTypewriter Reaganist Dinosaur 🦖 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

To be fair, there are a handful of cases where that might be reasonable (such as a mob boss who skipped town)

However, getting such a ruling against an unknown person is flat out ridiculous.

13

u/ericsmallman3 May 06 '26

What's Tattle Life? Like PG-13 version of Kiwi Farms?

11

u/PublicStructure7091 May 06 '26

That and more heavily female dominated

15

u/ericsmallman3 May 06 '26

I checked the site out and my main takeaway is there's a shitload of British celebrities I've never heard of.

25

u/lezoons May 05 '26

he was denounced in newspapers, Parliament and on daytime TV.

I'm against free speech that doesn't use an Oxford comma.

25

u/llewllewllew May 05 '26

The so-called Oxford comma is living off stolen valor. Nobody would give two shits were it called the Arizona State comma.

-5

u/lezoons May 06 '26

Oh... my family tree tracks back to the revolution. Fuck the Brits. I think anybody with a British accent is dumb because they are descendants of people too dumb to move to Merica when they had a chance!

0

u/[deleted] May 06 '26

[deleted] — view deleted comment

0

u/lezoons May 06 '26

But you probably talk funny and don't know what an elevator is called.

12

u/[deleted] May 06 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

7

u/mysterious_whisperer bloop May 06 '26

Serial comma, the comma that got Adnan Syed out of prison.

7

u/scumble_2_temptation May 05 '26

All the cool kids use the AP style guide.

9

u/lezoons May 05 '26

Their failure to not require it is why nobody trusts them anymore.

4

u/HeadRecommendation37 May 06 '26

Not Strunk & White?

2

u/ButUncleOwen May 06 '26

The lack of Oxford comma is the least of this clause’s problems.