Jurisdiction: France

Pages removed from: Wordpress Blog

Date of removal: 22 June 2016

Number of web pages removed: 1

Additional information: This website removal concerned a leading offshore investment company, which had fallen victim to a popular defamatory blog which was operated from France. The blogger was dissatisfied with his financial investment and conditioned the removal of his highly defamatory and highly visible blog from the internet upon full refund of his investment. Our defamation lawyers advised that the blogger's demand constituted blackmail. Companies that are asked to pay money in return for removal of defamatory posts from the internet should be very careful not to fall foul of anti-bribery laws. Our defamation solicitors successfully commenced legal proceedings for the removal of the defamatory blog posts. Our client had almost immediately reported increase in sales.