Hypnotist sues British paper -- and wins -- over it calling his LaSalle PhD "bogus"

Hypnotist sues over diploma mill allegation

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2263896,00.html

 

He is daft for suing the paper, IMHO. LaSalle is one of the few diploma mills that was proven to be a dipoma mill in court, IIRC. As was mentioned in the article Kirk was put in jail. If this fellow really did a bunch of work to get his diploma from a diploma mill then that makes him all the more naive in my book.

 

The issue is not whether Lasalle was bogus.

The issue is whether the journalist's remarks were libelous.

My guess is that the coverage was not libelous.

I am not a lawyer though,

Dave

 

La Salle Court decision in the UK

I haven't posted for a while, but thought that you might all be interested in this court verdict from the UK recently

The hypnotist won.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1202841.ece

 

The paper had claimed that he knew it was a bogus degree. The judge said that he was academically ignorant and didn't know the degree was bogus. So, does he still use the degree, I wonder.

 

Bill

A lot of the papers are saying that it was a Pyrrhic victory, so draw your own coclusions as to whether he still uses it.

 

British libel case and what it says about the use of substandard degrees...

British libel case and what it says about the international use of substandard degrees.

http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/08/03/contreras

 

Sometimes the courts get it wrong. This is shown by all the convicts vindicated and freed because of DNA testing as well as this British libel case.

 

I beleive the narrow legal reasoning was imply that if a school is legally accredited by the lawful government of it's location - for the paper to say "it's not a real degree" was untrue. Legally, it WAS a real degree - simply one not recognized by virtually any other organization.

Bit like the Hutt River Province.

 

Is Hutt River province a real 'province'?. I don't think so! Either does the Australian government!

 

I tend to agree - OTOH - the agricultural quotas set by the Australian government are ignored there - and nothing is done about it.