DATAMOTION WINS DEFAMATION ACTIONDatamotion Asia Pacific Limited...

DATAMOTION WINS DEFAMATION ACTION
Datamotion Asia Pacific Limited is pleased to announce that it has successfully prosecuted the first of a series of
defamation actions in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
Concerned at defamatory comment published on the HotCopper website in 2009, DataMotion commenced
investigations to determine the identity of the persons posting on the HotCopper site under pseudonyms. Assisted by an
action for preliminary discovery brought against HotCopper, DataMotion commenced three Supreme Court actions.
The first of these against Mr Graeme Gladman was concluded last week, with Mr Gladman agreeing to pay damages to
DataMotion and its Chairman / Managing Director Mr Ronald Moir (totalling $20,000), taxed legal costs of
DataMotion (totalling $10,000), and provide apologies and undertakings not to publish further defamatory postings.
Two further actions, one against Mr George Moore (whom DataMotion alleges made postings under the pseudonym
?geo_au?) and the other against Mr David Norris (whom DataMotion alleges made postings under the pseudonym
?DONEIT?) remain pending before the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
The solicitor for DataMotion Mr Martin Bennett, General Counsel of Lavan Legal said that:
?There has been an increasing proliferation of internet chat sites where people feel free to hide their identities
and make defamatory comments about companies and their executives and directors. Although it is a complex
process to determine their identity, these postings can be traced and where necessary legal action can be taken
to stamp out this kind of damaging attack on a company and its executives?.