In this article, first published on Halsbury’s Law Exchange, Lucy Corrin looks at the background to the high-profile ‘Twitter joke trial’
As Henry Ward Beecher once said: “A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road.” The law has currently been jolted by one such pebble, the case of Paul Chambers and an ill-advised tweet that is under consideration by the High Court. Frustrated by airport closure and the impending cancellation of a flight, Paul Chambers took to Twitter to express his disappointment:
