Lyoness has misplaced a five-year defamation lawsuit introduced towards two bloggers in Poland.
The swimsuit pertained to articles printed underneath the pseudonym “antylyoness” on the “blox.pl” web site from 2013.
As reported by CMWP, the Press Freedom Monitoring Middle of the Polish Journalists Affiliation, all however one cost towards the bloggers had been dismissed early on.
The prevailing defamation cost noticed Lyoness declare the bloggers had
violated the nice title of the corporate (by) publishing false statements about it.
Lyoness prevailed on the one defamation cost towards one of many bloggers. The opposite blogger was acquitted.
As a result of courtroom discovering the alleged act of defamation created “no social hurt” nonetheless, no penalty was imposed.
In different phrases it was a hole victory.
Nonetheless, the blogger appealed the choice within the Katowice District Court docket.
The appeals courtroom dominated in favor of the blogger, discovering
the penalty imposed by the courtroom of first occasion … was unjustified, as a result of on this case the weblog entry associated to the felony proceedings … was an announcement by an nameless individual utilizing solely a pseudonym.
It isn’t even recognized whether or not the accused individual constantly pleaded not responsible.
It’s also telling that the opposite blogger accused on this case, who confronted the identical fees, was acquitted.
As I perceive it, the cleared blogger will now try and recoup authorized prices from Lyoness.
The weblog submit hooked up to Lyoness’ prevailing depend was a quote from Poland’s Minister of Finance.
CMWP, who filed an amicus transient within the case, provides;
It ought to be emphasised that the whole questioned assertion from 2013, which reads:
“At the moment, proceedings are pending earlier than the President of the Workplace of Competitors and Client Safety relating to the applying by Lyoness Poland Sp. z o. o. practices infringing collective shopper pursuits” was a devoted quote from the assertion of the Minister of Finance, not rashly expressed, however articulated in writing to the then Speaker of the Senate of the Republic of Poland.
The journal was publicly accessible on the Web on the official web sites of those workplaces.
There was no cause to query their content material.
Emphasizing the hazard to customers if MLM scammers silence whistleblowers with authorized motion, right here’s what occurred in Poland whereas Lyoness’ lawsuit performed out:
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