Max Mosley opens a can of worms.

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

Can the NOTW be sued successfully for invasion of privacy if they did not instigate the recording of the orgy. If they merely were approached by one of the female participants, they are just printing an expose are they not?

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I don't know. But I suppose if it was that black and white as to give a yes/no answer you wouldn't need massive legal teams for this matter. And for some reason I think they do :p :

If he's suing in a French court over a British newspaper over an event that happened in Britain, and he is British - surely he could sue in any country if there was an advantage in doing so?

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

Also - why the hell in a French court?!

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$$$$$? Because he can file for criminal charges this way too?

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

$$$$$? Because he can file for criminal charges this way too?

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After some consideration, I'm sure it's his aim to prevent the FIA from seeing it first and foremost in the general meetings, so if he gets a French court injunction against the video he will do that. Although, they all can view the video in other countries, so I'm not sure how effective this option will be.

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

After some consideration, I'm sure it's his aim to prevent the FIA from seeing it first and foremost in the general meetings, so if he gets a French court injunction against the video he will do that. Although, they all can view the video in other countries, so I'm not sure how effective this option will be.

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Well, NOTW sent a DVD of the 'incident' to all FIA delegates, plus, French Judge said while he could order the recall of all copies of NOTW in France, there is nowt he can do about the online footage.

The certified half-wit has a 100 quid note bet on , that Max will still be in his position at the end of the week , and that is some serious coin for a Scot .

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Originally Posted by Malllen

Ha! :laugh:

Please, tell me how you arrived at this logic.

Bernie's problem is that Max's exploits are bad press for F1, the FIA, and bad news for his and FOM's finances. Otherwise he had no problem with Max.

He's probably doing Max a favour by telling him to go, because Mosley's bad press is not going to stop even if he 'wins' in two days time.

The simple fact is that the outcome isn't going to be determined by who 'wins', but by who loses less.

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Going by your logics Bernie should have been the first to want mcLaren thrown out of F1 because they were giving "bad press for F1, the FIA, and bad news for his and FOM's finances".
However he did protect them against Mosley's wrath.

Bernie says he's Max's friend and so on, not even a week ago he was declaring war to Max! :rolleyes:

Bernie is the cancer of F1, even having a fortune of £ billions built on the back of F1 teams, some of them going out of business because lack of funds, isn't enough to the poisonous dwarf.

What Max was saying about the commercial rights negotiation with Bernie is the truth, and Bernie wants Max out in order to put one of his own men there to facilitate the terms of the new contract.

Max knows who set him up and his attitude towards Bernie suggests that the later might be involved in the sting.

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

After some consideration, I'm sure it's his aim to prevent the FIA from seeing it first and foremost in the general meetings, so if he gets a French court injunction against the video he will do that. Although, they all can view the video in other countries, so I'm not sure how effective this option will be.

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In fact due to the EU legislation (that overrides any member countries legislation) the legal court decisions taken in any member country are to be respected in the other countries, baning it in France means it would be banned in whole EU, but not on a russian, chinese, us or any non EU internet site.

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Originally Posted by ioan

In fact due to the EU legislation (that overrides any member countries legislation) the legal court decisions taken in any member country are to be respected in the other countries, baning it in France means it would be banned in whole EU,...................

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Do you have a link for this please? Not that I don't believe you - I just want to reassure myself that you are correct in this. I find it very difficult to believe that a court decision taken in England would hold in Turkey, say. But then, I am willing to believe you if you can provide some reference for this.

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Originally Posted by ioan

Bernie says he's Max's friend and so on, not even a week ago he was declaring war to Max! :rolleyes:

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Not quite mr dog whisperer sir. ;) In fact, the letter from Max to the member states, attempting to turn the 3rd June vote of confidence into something else, said in as many words that the FIA was in fact at war from FOM the CRH etc.

Bernie has since moved to dispel this myth, setting the record straight that there is no 'war'.

Bernie I think has been embarrassed by his 'mate', certainly the 'Crown Prince of Bahrain and the overheard phone call from Max' (look out JK, that's a great Potter book title!) was bit of a humdinger in itself.

But Bernard is in it for the money, he does care a little for the teams though. :)

...................only because without the teams, there's no money :(