Rindos v Hardwick
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Rindos v. Hardwick was a case of Internet defamation heard in 1994 in which Western Australian lawyers representing a visiting American academic sought to create a legal precedent by deeming an email sent by Gil Hardwick to have alleged paedophilia against David Rindos, a probationary lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia.
Facts
Hardwick was living at the time with his wife and young family in Derby as part of a field trip into the Great Sandy Desert in the far north-west of Western Australia. As far as can be ascertained, Hardwick was studying in a different department, had not experienced any professional differences with Dr Rindos, and in fact hardly knew him beyond Rindos' insistence on being granted tenure, the Rindos affair.
Law
The case in law focused on a Usenet posting made via DIALix, arguably Australia's first commercial Internet service provider, although the court did not consider whether the ISP was responsible for carriage of the message.
Further reading
- Diane Rowland; Elizabeth Macdonald (2012). "Chapter 7: Protecting the Private Individual". Information technology law. Routledge. p. 392. ISBN 978-0415870160 – via Google Books.
External links
- Hardwick's post
- [web.archive.org/http://decisions.justice.wa.gov.au/supreme/supdcsn.nsf/c04d382e733a94a148256fc4002b2e2b/12ce060858b5eb9e4825641300205ca6?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,rindos RINDOS -v- HARDWICK] - judgement by the Supreme Court of Western Australia