Roy Keane Charged With Assault

**dahamsta** · 24/09/2004, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Donal81

I wasn't being condescending at any point, you were when you instructed me on how one should think before speaking and telling me to try it for myself. If you were trying to protect your users, there was no reason to simply make fun of me, was there? I know that websites are up in the air when it comes to libel - I lecture in it - and don't believe one sarcastic comment would warrant a legal action. If you're protecting the website, that's cool because it's a great website, but in future just say that and don't take the ****. Libel actions take place on a regular basis but they are rarely something anyone wants and judges often call for common sense in a matter. If the defendant has genuinely lowered the plaintiff in the eyes of decent thinking members of society, the plaintiff has a case. In the case of one sarcastic sentence, which I qualified in the one immediately following it, as well as in a following post, I think anyone willing to shell out tens of thousands of pounds to pursue it. I do appreciate where you're coming from and see your point but I would have had no problem with what you said if you hadn't have taken the approach that you did and then tell me to lose the attitude.

Walk a mile in these shoes and see how you deal with people that make libellous statements on your website, no matter how actionable you believe they are.

adam

**Ozymandias** · 24/09/2004, 12:45 PM

[QUOTE=Lionel .

it incredible the amount of furore two scobes and a dog can cause?

[/QUOTE]

mad..apparently the young lad was accompanied to court by a well known journalist...

every weekend in slimetrax there are scobes fighting over a dog

**keenanboy** · 24/09/2004, 8:07 PM

Here we go again,
the can of worms is open. Keano gives some scrote a clip round the year and its assault. wait until we see the string of offences this cream cracker had done in his short life. That guy was probably on the golf course robbing golf balls or joyriding a golf cart annanyways.

**dahamsta** · 24/09/2004, 8:44 PM

Originally Posted by keenanboy

Here we go again,
the can of worms is open. Keano gives some scrote a clip round the year and its assault. wait until we see the string of offences this cream cracker had done in his short life. That guy was probably on the golf course robbing golf balls or joyriding a golf cart annanyways.

Any more idle speculation in this thread and I'm tossing it and banning any single-digit posters that cross my path at the time.

And for the record, giving someone - anyone - a clip around the ear is in fact assault.

adam

**Plastic Paddy** · 24/09/2004, 8:49 PM

I agree with the point you're making, Adam. Your website, and therefore your liability. As it's so contentious, time to bin this thread?

PP

**1MickCollins** · 25/09/2004, 1:54 PM

Yes lock this thread until a verdict is reached or the charges are dropped. Let the professionals deal with it in the meantime. Personally it wouldn't surprise me if Roy was set up.

**inexile** · 25/09/2004, 2:10 PM

I wouldnt be surprised if he was set up myself either to be honest, if he did however he would be a very stupid man because for all his talk about calming down and being a good father to his kids he puts him self back into the limelight for all the wrong reasons, we should be talking about keanes football prowess not his alleged boxing prowess