Legal Question in Business Law in United Kingdom

Re: Can someone sue me or force me to remove content from my website?

If you either generate, edit or can edit content that is being posted on your website, then you are legally responsible for any defamatory content. A person complaining about defamatory material posted about them can therefore sue you for libel. A court in some circumstances will grant an injunction for the material to be removed before a full trial. If you were in a position to show that the defamatory statements are substantially true then you would have a defence to the claim and possibly an interim injunction.

Given the intention is to expose scammers, the material you are allowing others to post and the material you are posting yourself will by definition be defamatory. Past experience shows that a small proportion (in the range of 10 � 20%) of those correctly exposed of criminal or seriously antisocial behaviour do sue. It is also possible to slip on a number of defamation �banana skins�. Even the most highly resourced electronic, print and film publishers� slip up on these from time to time. I would therefore strongly recommend that you explore insuring yourself for defamation and related claims. This will not however cover the current complaint so you will have to ensure that you are in a position to �justify� the statements made by the available evidence.