{"id":10547,"date":"2018-02-06T08:54:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2018-02-06T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:54:43","slug":"for-fb-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10547","title":{"rendered":"$$ FOR FB POSTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Jada Loutoo<br \/>\nFebruary 06, 2018 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2018\/02\/05\/for-fb-posts\/\">newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=raffique-shah\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/943055.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Justice Frank Seepersad' \/><\/a>Social media users beware. You may have to pay if your posts are found to be defamatory. The warning came from Justice Frank Seepersad who yesterday ordered a woman who posted defamatory statements on Facebook, to compensate an entire family. She was sued after a series of post appeared on her page in 2016.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn a ruling in the High Court, Seepersad said the words posted by Janelle Burke were \u201creckless and scandalous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He ordered her to pay compensation and the family\u2019s legal bill, which are to be assessed by a Master of the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>With no legislation to govern the use of social media locally, Seepersad\u2019s ruling has created the precedent for other similar cases where slanderous statements are posted on social media accounts as he has developed a three-step test to specifically address the use of social media and its real-world implications.<\/p>\n<p>YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR MOUTH <\/p>\n<p>IT WASN\u2019T ME, WON\u2019T WORK<\/p>\n<p><I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2018\/02\/05\/for-fb-posts\/\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jada Loutoo February 06, 2018 &#8211; newsday.co.tt Social media users beware. You may have to pay if your posts are found to be defamatory. The warning came from Justice Frank Seepersad who yesterday ordered a woman who posted defamatory statements on Facebook, to compensate an entire family. She was sued after a series of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">$$ FOR FB POSTS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,186,178],"tags":[85,44,1327,1163,359],"class_list":["post-10547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","tag-abuse","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-facebook","tag-justice-frank-seepersad","tag-newsday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10548,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions\/10548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}