Sued for a bad Trustpilot review???

[SexyGreyFox]

I take the other side.
I'm involved all year round in working on cases where my Lawyer boss then goes to court (at the moment all on Microsoft Teams) and it has cost £1000s to get all the evidence in the right legal format all paid by the taxpayer.
We then go to court and the defendant doesn't turn up or can't be bothered to turn their laptop on because their dog is ill.
The defendant isn't fined like the bloke above but all of us have had our tax wasted.
If he had turned up he could have at least explained why he called them scam and provided his letter and their reply.

No sympathy.

 

[A2Z]

Terrible firm, hope they get shut down after all this bad PR. He is allowed to express his opinion that it was a scam, it's still his opinion. If the company disagree they could have got possibly got the review removed.

 

[Surveyor]

Terrible firm, hope they get shut down after all this bad PR. He is allowed to express his opinion that it was a scam, it's still his opinion. If the company disagree they could have got possibly got the review removed.

You're wrong. One of the defences was "honest opinion" which the judge struck out.

 

[ttaskmaster]

I also don't think anyone would be taking the guy's side if it weren't for the fact they sued him for £25k - that's a ridiculously disproportionate amount for a single review from basically a "nobody".

Does the court not decide how much to fine him?

And in 5 years, anyone doing a google search for reviews about the company will still find a BBC article about how they sued a customer for a bad review popping up in their search results

Celebs sue the media for defamation, slander and libel all the time. It's no big deal...

He is allowed to express his opinion that it was a scam, it's still his opinion.

The court decided that is was not mere opinion, but full-on libel, though.

I hope more people get sued. It's quite tiresome looking for reviews, only to find petty bitching and vehement slating of a perfectly good company just because the DPD man delivering their stuff was a minute late, or whatever!

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I also don't think anyone would be taking the guy's side if it weren't for the fact they sued him for £25k - that's a ridiculously disproportionate amount for a single review from basically a "nobody".

I explained above that as soon as they knew they were going to court they would have put a small team behind it to go to court so it isn't just people not using them, it's their costs.
My boss is on a very big wage, I estimate around £80,000 and he can spend weeks on one case and it will also involve other staff members.

 

[Surveyor]

I explained above that as soon as they knew they were going to court they would have put a small team behind it to go to court so it isn't just people not using them, it's their costs.
My boss is on a very big wage, I estimate around £80,000 and he can spend weeks on one case and it will also involve other staff members.

£25k is the award of damages, costs are on top.

 

[COYS]

Costs were about £3500 IIRC

 

[Moothead2]

About time someone got taken to the cleaner for their "Opinion".

 

[The Running Man]

Is it fair to leave bad fair back because they decided to sue a customer?

Thats not libellous is it?

 

[Nasher]

Is it fair to leave bad fair back because they decided to sue a customer?

Thats not libellous is it?

They did it, so it's fact. But now it's going to haunt them.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Can he write another review of been sued in a bad review? Might as well what they going to do sue him again.

 

[chaparral]

Can he write another review of been sued in a bad review? Might as well what they going to do sue him again.

That what i was thinking

" This Company Sued me for £25,000 just because i left them a bad review "

 

[Deleted member 77746]

That what i was thinking

" This Company Sued me for £25,000 just because i left them a bad review "

I would do that so much if it was me. I then would use a bot to flood them with bad reviews.

One of the problems is we will never know the full story.

 

[Meridian]

If you're selling legal services, take a fee up front and perform no actual legal work but merely repackage information then that is dishonest and could be described as a scam in my opinion.

Surely a large part of legal work is repackaging information? Everything about the law is right out there in the open, but it takes a lawyer to understand what is relevant and what is not. And at the end of the day, their main output is advice, not action.

 

[Nasher]

Thing is there seems to be a lot of these "scammy" solicitors around who really do FA and have dubious business practices.

One a friend used when buying a house a few years back was storing credit card information, unencrypted in plain text files and emails. He worked for the government at the time, pushed the details to the right people and took them to the cleaners lol. I think they ended up closing down.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Can he write another review of been sued in a bad review?

Of course he can but he would be wise not to tell lies or be libelous.

 

[bainbridge]

They used their expertise of the law to take action against him, but evidently it was a bad business decision. I think they got what they deserved.

 

[Malevolence]

Law firm celebrates victory.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Of course he can but he would be wise not to tell lies or be libelous.

Don't have to tell lies.

 

[azazl187]

It baffles me why so many if you even care!! You must be very bored.