Julian Porter Botches Two Simple Lawyer’s Letters
In late February, we published a post about Titan Outdoor’s plans to erect a superboard on the roof of 647 College Street.
Julian Porter, who wrote the book “Canadian Libel Practice,” is the tobacco industry’s libel lawyer. He was successful in representing the industry against a web site called De Facto which had the temerity to campaign against tobacco advertising. Porter filed this notice pursuant to the Libel and Slander Act against Defacto.ca.
The law is an ass. And so is Julian Porter. Of course, that makes him the perfect lawyer for outdoor advertising matters.
None of the content of that page is either false or libelous either in its current form or original form. We informed Julian Porter by e-mail that while Porter claimed in his With Prejudice letter that his client did not intend to build the Titan sign in the rendering, he did not object to a statement to that effect and did not ask that that statement be deleted. We also told Porter that we would publish his letter of March 6, 2008, and our responding e-mail, and informed him that failure to object to the impending publication of the letter and e-mail would mean he would be estopped by acquiescence to objecting to their publication.
Porter did not object to the publication of his letter, only our responding e-mail:
We then informed Julian Porter that we would be publishing his responding letter in its entirely and noted that he failed to object to the publication of his original letter as well.
At that point, the stupid money that Frank Teti was paying Julian Porter to create fodder for our blog appears to have run out as Julian Porter never responded.
