Read a post on Iain Dale’s blog this morning regarding defamation.

I was interested more from a law firm perspective rather than from that of a blogger. Although thinking about it I suppose my comment on Clifford Chance’s London office yesterday could be considered as such and maybe I need to think more from a bloggers point of view?!? (Let me say any implication on CC’s London office is not to be taken seriously!)

It just reminded me of the Davenport Lyons saga (if the name itself doesn’t explain, Google their name for stories like this), the law firm blunderbus approach to new media. To be fair once I’d read the article from the Law Gazette I realised it came across as fair and a sensible approach to the law (dealing in the most part by negotiation rather than taking the case to court).

But Iain’s right, bloggers need to be aware of the legal aspect. The days where bloggers could say what they wanted about anyone have probably past. There was a great example of why in yesterday’s Metro!