How Do I Bring A Claim for Libel or Slander?
Judith Thompson 11-09-2023
If someone has been spreading lies about you to your family, friends, neighbours, employer or work colleagues, is it possible to sue them?
The answer is yes, provided that the lies are significant enough to have caused serious harm to your reputation.
When someone says something about you which is untrue, the consequences can be devastating - your friends and family can stop talking to you, you can be ostracised from work colleagues, you could be expelled from social groups or clubs and, in some cases, you could even lose your job. In any of those cases, it might be possible for you to claim compensation. If you want to start a claim for libel or slander, the first step is to send a letter of claim to the person who has lied about you. The letter of claim must set out what exactly has been said about you, what those untrue words mean, and it needs to provide detail of the harm which has been caused to you. In a lot of slander cases, you will also have to prove that you have suffered financial loss as a result of the lies, but this does not apply to libel cases. What is a cease and desist letter? A cease and desist letter is a very short letter, which effectively asks your opponent to stop spreading lies about you. It is a term which is used very widely in defamation claims in the United States. In England and Wales, it is always better to start off a claim for defamation with a letter of claim. Once the letter of claim has been sent, your opponent has a short period of time in which to respond. In the response, the defendant should say whether they agree with your interpretation of what the words mean, and they should offer remedies, if they agree that you have been defamed.
If your opponent does not offer you any remedies, or if they simply ignore your letter of claim, you can sue them for slander or libel.
And so this is going to have to be my next move. My solicitor has told me to collect as much evidence as possible and find out the names of the people spreading these lies. Even if the people are not the ones who first started spreading the lies, anyone repeating them is also guilty.
Because there are so many people involved I will need to have some sort of filter system and just go after the ones that I suspect are the main culprits. This is not just someone spreading some idle gossip and tittle-tattle, it is a well orchestrated smear campaign designed to inflict as much pain on someone without actually touching them - no touch torture.
In a normal criminal trial in this country the onus is on the prosecution to prove the defendant guilty, but in a slander case it is up to the person being slandered to prove that what is being said about him or her is false To do this would be very easy for me as I know that I have not done anything wrong, but the problem is the people behind this smear campaign know this and that is why they tell everyone never to say anything to me, never let on what is being said about me.
So, obviously the first thing I have to find out is what it is that is being said about me. I have had many people tell me things and also a lot of innuendo over the years, so I believe that they are probably telling different people different stories about me.
So, around 2009 when I moved back to Esher, they started off saying that I was a cowboy builder, trying to stop people employing me and earning a living, but as I am in fact a very good bricklayer and not a cowboy builder that only put off a few of my old masonic customers, so good riddance, no loss there. Since then they have tried all the usual disgusting smears, violent, drug user, pervert, etc, etc. But all of it totally untrue.
They have had some 15 years head start on me, so most people have heard some of the stories and most probably believe them so it is going to be difficult for me to now convince them otherwise. But just because you hear one story first does not mean that it is the true version. A lot of the main people doing this are in positions of power and on the face of it, upstanding pillars of society and so they are very convincing and have to be. For all I know, they may be showing people some sort of fake evidence to support their claims, which is even more reason that I need to stop this and challenge their slanderous lies. Difficult, I know, but I have to at least try.
So it is just an excuse to carry out their sick and twisted vendetta. It has even got a name.
The White Glove Treatment, they call it.
https://harbingerj.substack.com/p/the-silent-dagger/comments
https://alltruth.home.blog/2019/10/01/distortion-to-reality-freemasons-gaslighting-and-gangstalking/
175,000 freemasons in Britain...
Someone has hacked my computer and written this at the bottom of the page -
''more than an unhealthy interest in us, and''
Veiled threat? Wankers!