Mr Justice Eady recently granted an interim injunction to prevent a group of individuals waging an anonymous internet campaign against a company and its employees. The case provides another example of how the courts are now cracking down on individuals who mistakenly think they can disseminate actionable material on the internet with impunity.
In Sunderland Housing Company and Peter Walls v Baines & Others [26 July 2006] the claimant housing company and its chief executive (on his own behalf and on behalf of a number of represented parties) is suing a group of individuals and a company for libel, harassment and unlawful data processing in relation to a sustained website campaign over a period of two years.
