Taxi Driver Online

You oil baron you.

Remember I still owe you a pint

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Indeed.

I'm waiting on that bloke from Carlise organising a meet, perhaps in January?

I hear The Grafton is still worth a visit.

You cannot just sue them , first you have to give them the opportunity to retract the statement and apologise, if they do not then the magazine itself will be deemed as a agreeing and sporting the statement,

Second, if we went to court the judge would be looking at whether we are fictitious people or could be easily recognised in our real lives, as our true identities are clearly stated on this forum I think that speaks for itself..

Thirdly. damages, the level of damages could very well be high, because the abuse and attemp to discredit the character and reputations of the people involved has been directed in the taxi trade press, and the taxi trade is where we make our living,

The easiest thing would be a simple apology and retraction, and for the editor to think carefully about what he puts in his magazine.......Trevor Jones ...Sefton..

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

AMAZING all PATRIOTS queing up to avoid tax who will pay your mates in the MOB then.Following the ponce Charlie on his £100 million scam a fine example!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The views expressed by this contributor do not neccesarily reflect the policys of The GMB Nationally or of the GMB London Region.

How old are you ??

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Mr T your absolutely spot on...as you mentioned you are fictious characters.... in the eyes of a court in this instance.
according to the legal advice we got off Ashton media's solicitor.

we check out most things before they go to print when its to do with things such as this....lol

but its not to say you couldnt have a try.
im sure there would be some lawyer out there that would give it a go on your behalf...!!

what you would have to do is either go under your real identity on here in future or change your id to what you have on here by deed poll.

hence the cop out on page 4
it doesnt seem like it covers too much but in legal terms it does make it difficult to hold the magazine responsible....!!

you must admit though Terry's whole aim is to wind people up and he hopes by doing so you will respond and in doing so it will create a debate but in most cases it appears to end up as a slanging match....!!

thats a shame as Rambo said on another post. his heart is in the right place but in most peoples opinions on here he goes about it all wrong.

QUOTE from Rambo.

GMB, what you must remember is that we have different opinions, resorting to attacking people personally is what winds us up.
I honestly belive you have the good of your members at heart, it's just the way you express yourself is OTT.
I have had quite a few heated debates on here, but we don't start slagging each other of, we agree to disagree. I respect the fact that you have the passion to stand up for what you belive in, it's just that sometimes you act like a complete wally whilst doing it.
All the members on here work in the industry, and we all have opinions, I agree with some, and disagree with others, that's life.

As my grandad used to say "the moment you start shouting, you have lost the arguement".


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stressed controller!!!

I don't get the magazine concerned but i'd be interested if any comments are printed about me. As you can see I sign my posts with my name and name of my company therefore anything that discredits me discredits my business. I'd happily have a crack at the courts if I deemed the comments warreented it.

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kevin
http://www.monmouthtaxis.co.uk

the 2 who terry as mentioned are captain cab and GBC
if any were believed to be real id's then they wouldnt be allowed to be mentioned and deleted from the column....!!

Well there is no doubt in your mind that we are not fictitious from this point on. and you're right there is always a barrister prepared to take somebody's money?.
The rantings of the Terry's of this world do not really bother me, they are more a source of amusement,
In my opinion to educate Terry would be a job for Mission impossible , let's face it after all when associations endeavoured to work together their would have to be an element of trust and respect.
we have all seen his like before, and are not deceived by him. his job in the London private hire trade should be relatively easy after all he only has to draw upon the work other people have done over the last 30 years



Well there is no doubt in your mind that we are not fictitious from this point on. and you're right there is always a barrister prepared to take somebody's money?.
The rantings of the Terry's of this world do not really bother me, they are more a source of amusement,
In my opinion to educate Terry would be a job for Mission impossible , let's face it after all when associations endeavoured to work together their would have to be an element of trust and respect.
we have all seen his like before, and are not deceived by him. his job in the London private hire trade should be relatively easy after all he only has to draw upon the work other people have done over the last 30 years

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

I doubt you will suffer any loss if someone on here, or in a mag, says Mr Herfordian is a tad iffy.

Even if you sign your name, how does anyone know, or for that matter care, if it's accurate?

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IDFIMH

Well I wouldn't be too sure Tony - most people reading your posts probably don't know who you are because you haven't provided much information in your profile, but some of us do, so if anyone libelled 'tm' on here then I can't see why they shouldn't be legally liable.

By the same token plenty of people on here know who Mr T and Captain Cab are, so I can't see why they can't be libelled via their pseudonym. This is particularly so since Terry's article provided sufficient detail about them such that their identities wouldn't be difficult to ascertain, particularly when combined with what I said above about lots of people knowing who they are in any case.

Having said that, I can't really see anything in the article that would be actionable - it's not just enough to abuse someone, for example, or say that they exploit others, because that's just fair comment.

It really has to be something factually inaccurate that damages the complainant's reputation - for example, if Mr T was accused of making a quarter of a million from selling plates when in fact he'd either made only a fraction of that, or hadn't made anything at all. Or if it was claimed that he was a convicted drunk driver when in fact he wasn't. (Of course, all this is just for illustration purposes and none of it is intended to allege anything).

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Personally, I couldnt give a t*ss what the fool says

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

It really has to be something factually inaccurate that damages the complainant's reputation - for example, if Mr T was accused of making a quarter of a million from selling plates when in fact he'd either made only a fraction of that, or hadn't made anything at all. Or if it was claimed that he was a convicted drunk driver when in fact he wasn't. (Of course, all this is just for illustration purposes and none of it is intended to allege anything)

ha ha

I would think that most people would realise that my replies are more on-the-grounds of a warning, (in general that is) people work very hard to build a business, but it only takes one fool to destroy it....

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!