Blogger sued for Defamation and loses! 

Sued for Damages of £50,000 and costs in excess of £100,000!

Julian "Jules" Saunders of Kings Norton, Birmingham, aka The Sandwell Skidder, is currently embroiled in a defamation case brought against him following untrue and libelous claims regarding a female employee of Sandwell MBC and GMB Union Member. We will give you a short but interesting view of this case but yet again shows how "Jules" targets women in his blogs and "unfound" allegations.

James V Saunders

Click here to read James V Saunders - the complete case including judgement

It is a long read so we will surmise the details however, as mentioned in a previous post about "Jules" alias Twitter accounts, the "Ian Crow @ CrowMultimedia" Twitter account is mentioned.  

"Bullying @GMB_Union nasty Sarah James"

This tweet is apparently referencing an incident which happened in 2014. Four years earlier! The incident was supposed to have happened in a pub and in his blog of 2014 didn't even mention "bullying":

For clarification, Miss Addy is "Jules" Solicitor.

"Jules" then goes on to make "addendums" (😂) which the court also published:

Then another "addendum"!

Bearing in mind, being called a "filthy animal" is perhaps at lot more tame than "Jules" tweeting disgusting swear words with the interspersed "*" put in as if that makes it ok. 

On we go.

And on we go:

And on and on:

"Jules" did offer a defense to the allegations that the "defamed" or "lied" about Mrs James which was "honest opinion". So, were the blog posts by "Jules" classed as "statements" or just "honest opinion"? 

The Judge said "No".

Remarkably, "Jules" then admitted that he had actually "defamed" Mrs James!

Its a bit late to have a Jesus moment but here we are. Hallelujah! 

Conclusion and verdict:

All the above information is freely available on the internet by searching James V Saunders. Additionally "Jules" even writes about it himself on his other blog "As the Crow Flies" under the pseudonym "Ian Crow". This "blog" consists of "Jules" writing about himself in the "third party" which we do have to wonder why. Still, its his blog and if he wants to write about himself as someone else then why not? 

 Here, "Jules" is stating that the "Claimant" being Mrs James and "the blogger" being "Jules" needs stopping and we have to agree in that case. To continually harass and defame women who seem to cross his path is wrong, very wrong indeed. 

Please click here to have a read of the blog if you wish!

Case subject to further scrutiny

Lexis Nexis - Practical Guidance in their "Legal News" post goes on to mention this case:

TMT analysis: In this libel case, the High Court has issued a preliminary ruling in favour of the claimant’s purported meanings of the words complained of, which included a repeated description of the claimant as ‘bullying’. The court held that the natural meaning of most of the publications complained of was that the claimant is a bully and that that meaning constitutes a statement of fact, not opinion

Read the article here

Griffin Law mentions this case on their site stating:

An increase in online “trolling” and the use of social media and blogs as a means of providing instant opinions and complaints has led to the courts over recent years having to constantly review the interpretation of the Defamation Act 2013.

The Defendant argued that the posts were merely his opinion, however the court disagreed and said they were clearly statements of fact and not opinion. The ordinary reader would assume from reading the tweet and blog posts that the defendant was making statements of fact and therefore the posts were defamatory as they were not true.

Read the article here

Yet another link here to "trolling" and the linking of "Jules" to this behaviour online. 

As this case is ongoing due to most notably the Covid Pandemic, we will keep you informed of any further developments.

We'd also like to leave you with further evidence of "Jules" seemingly fascination with Mrs James.

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