On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Thomas Dalton<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/7/11 George Herbert <[email protected]>: >> Technically, the user could just ignore this - a lawsuit in a UK court >> without relevant jurisdiction, under US law as applies, can be >> ignored. A default judgement against him might be entered, however, >> and that might make future travel to Europe difficult. > > Would they stop you at the airport to enforce a civil judgement? > Criminal, certainly, but I'm not sure about civil.
There has been significant discussion about this, relative to UK libel / slander claims / lawsuits against US authors or speakers. I don't know of anyone who was stopped, but some UK courts have asserted that they could and would if the defendant didn't show up. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
