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The lunchtime diners were quiet as I recorded - not quite what you expect on a quiet Wednesday. But I won! Thanks to the supporters and supportive members of the press who turned up to root for me at the High Court. The gagging order, the injunction is lifted and Aiden Earley of the fraud Worthngton (WRN) and Rangers FC pays my costs. This is Round 1. Round 2 is in a couple of weeks so that money will be hepful. But for now I am getting hammered wth pizza hardman Darren Atwater as we bask in the glory of fighting for a free press and in the sweet joy that is victory.
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CPPH
Top man. Well done!
VINES
Well done to all, this was a big win for Wini
an art attack seen from space V for victory
and a big loss for the free speech deniers
YogiB
Bloody brilliant, so pleased for you Tom. Even said a little prayer for you last night!!
You have took a lot shit from many quarters in the last few weeks and am delighted you have won this first stage. Many, many people enjoy what you write and stand up for what you are doing. When times get tough and mud gets slung, remember most of those 1k listeners to Bearcast are in your corner.
For all those mug punters on LSE giving you shit, they may need reminding that it is probably them who have paid your costs. As their soon to be worthless shares were previously owned by Aid and palmed off to these mugs at inflated prices.
DUCK AND DIVE
Brilliant. Did Earley turn up? Have you got an address to serve court papers on him?
Hope you weren’t dressed like benefits-claimer when you appeared in front of the judge.
alcira16247
Tom
Great win!
I just hope the dishonourable Mr Earley doesn’t try to weasel out of paying costs!
After celebrations, will you please elaborate on what ‘the second round’ entails?
Sherlock
Congratulations – may more of us join your merry band fighting for free speech and investigative rigour on the AIM casino.
hammer69
Tom,
Justice prevails (at least for now).
Hope you can put a little more flesh on the bone as to next steps (eg will you repost the AE stuff), but probably best to leave until tomorrow. Enjoy the Chapel Down…
H69
MS
Great news, well done.
Good luck recouping the costs. That might be quite painful.
Question: Is the individual or the company liable to pay you the costs?
You might have to take action to get your money.
PS. face for radio……
turbograndad
Tom,
Congrats, bring on round 2, will get the morons clucking, the legal eagles are used to shysters tricks, of trying to use them, and costs to Winni me lod.
hammer69
And in case you wish to comment on the veracity of the LSE summary of events here is one version below taken from an ADVFN post.
H69
5baggersrus 11 Mar’15 – 13:34 – 4923 of 4925 0 0
Its bad enough TW arrived in court wearing a bl00dy black sweat top we dont need rif raf on here as well ffs
From the jungle at LSE …………….
Main points
1 injunction set aside due to late / non submission of full disclosure.
2. Judge has said TW can’t have the USB stick containing docs back and claimant can ask solicitor to hand them over
3 claimant can request reintroduction of the injunction provisional dates 25-27th March
4 TW awarded £7k costs – claimant has 14 days to pay
5 Judge scathing about lack of and late received evidence from both sides
6. Sadly TW can repost and re comment on the material in the interim although this will be taken into account in future proceedings.
7. TWs claim that he did not know docs stolen rubbished by judge as TW had titled them Confidential and Leaked in his blog thereby acknowledging he shouldn’t have them
oakworth
Get in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
J P Spaghetti
Nice one Tom! And Champers is all well and good but as I commented a little earlier today elsewhere you really should be celebrating with a pint or several of Worthington’s!
elrico
It was never in doubt, was it Tom!
Brilliant job…keep up the cracking work you and your team do.
larboulois
Good news Tom – really good news . . . Brownie points all round!
Phil
Excellent news. Well done
Temptress
Great news.
Enjoy the rest of the day and evening.
Presumably this cannot really proceed until your costs are met by Earley.
Gazza
q.how can a bankrupt shyster with debts that cost me the taxpayer the right to force a free speaking libatariian to court..because the crown must support scum who have money .,no matter how they got it..the man is vile/// born again Christian my at<>hole..he’s scum and dispicaple..I hope he pays his lawyer let alone tw… He’s vile like his scum brother taking pensioners money. I really think the games up for earley he’s a complete fraud fraud fraud
alfie
Well done,but I hope you smartened yourself up….cos that bloke in the photo holding the champagne bottle looks a tramp after 10 pints !
MS
Hammer69 –
7. TWs claim that he did not know docs stolen rubbished by judge as TW had titled them Confidential and Leaked in his blog thereby acknowledging he shouldn’t have them
This is an interesting statement as ¨stolen¨does not mean ¨leaked¨ does not mean Confidential.
I´m sure that a judge would be fully aware of what to steal means in law, and it is not synonymous with leak
!!
Scott Marshall
Anyone who has not seen Wolf of Wall Street or not recently I recommend you watch it. The comparisons and simularities in that movie to those involved at WRN are staggering.
“Rat holes” “Boiler sell techniques” “The name of the game” etc.
Watch it
john m spenceley
Congratulations,
HairLoss
Fantastic! Well done! Good to see that all those little scheisters on AIM that have cost me a lot of cash cannot always have it their own way. Thanks.
Lonster
Excellent news, well done mate. So were you awarded £7K costs? Blimey, those legal bills rack up quickly.What’s round 2 then?
ChrisG
Great news Tom – well done !
With the set of facts that you have, I don’t think you’ll need “luck” in round 2 – but Good Luck anyway, as the financial justice system is always open to interpretation.
Enjoy the celebrations !
Malc
Congrats mate!
You said some of the press was there – will they carry your story? If so, a little mention could result in more traffic this way and more ad revenue imo.
I’m not a holder in any of these companies as I, on the whole mistrust the AIM market.
Your predictions re QPP, and Igas – any more news in the nr future Tom?
Any chance of one of the papers backing you to clean up the AIM aka most s hole place?
Enjoy yourself today, you’ve earn’t it.
Malc
Gazza
Earleys been discredited again.and frankly should never be allowed a day in chambers again’the disgusting parasite..doug ware is a fraud a scumbag and to my knowledge a house sitter for wealthy people but where has all this money gone that this scum has pilfered from people?? Wulstan earley and co should be next on checklist imho. Don’t harp on about tom or anyone else you claim to be a Christian funny so does quiffif~Richards
david b
Well done for perseverance and following your beliefs
kingoldby
Enjoy your very well earned victory! Well done.
Jonathan Lewis
It’s hilarious that all of you high-fiving someone who knowingly used stolen information, despite protesting it wasn’t, hasn’t won anything at all.
The mere fact the judge has offered the Plaintiff a second hearing and the confiscation of stolen materials is the real win here. I’d be rather concerned, if I had been silly enough to promote myself so blatantly with knowingly stolen information, that I may not be able to hide behind my ‘Journo privilege’. Let’s be honest, if the judge had felt categorically this was in the public interest, there would have been no offer whatsoever for the plaintiff to have a 2nd hearing.
But don’t worry, carry on blowing smoke up someone’s arse a JUDGE indicated that knowingly used stolen information, is the only comfort Tom can take. Keep donating he’s very much going to need it. Again this post is for balance and might give some of you some food for thought.
VINES
GAZZA 11 March 2015, 18:17
“doug ware is a fraud a scumbag and to my knowledge a house sitter for wealthy people”
crikey…… I hope they lock away their jewellery
J P Spaghetti
Jonathan – you say “It’s hilarious that all of you high-fiving someone who knowingly used stolen information, despite protesting it wasn’t, hasn’t won anything at all.”, but surely the fact that thousands have been awarded to him to cover legal costs is indicative of a verdict that at this stage is at least sympathetic?
drunken sailor
“knowingly stolen information”
Well there is an unsubstantiated and therefore libellous statement if ever I heard one.
How can you prove information is stolen. It does not come with serial numbers like banknotes and you can’t mark it with smart water or some such other product that proves it is yours.
Information gets replicated and stored in so many different ways that it is impossible to prove where any bit of it actually came from.
Knowingly stolen, wow that is going to be even more impossible to prove, unless of course you illegally hack Tom’s e-mails and happen to find the e-mail from the person that sent him all the info which says dear Tom attached is a load of stolen info which I am too scared to exploit myself but as you can hide behind journalist privilege maybe you can exploit it. Would such an e-mail ever have existed? if it did then because of the way the internet works it might be possible to find it without illegal activity. Happy hunting Jonathan, in case Tom decides to sue you for libel for your libellous comments. He would not of course, because he believes in free speech and that people who hide behind legal tricks to deny free speech are scum, who should be confronted not caved into. Plus he would have great difficulty demonstrating that comments such as yours from a cretin such as you could possibly have materially damaged him in any way. Though anyone who thinks Aiden Earley should be protected by the legal system deserves to get hit and therefore I hope you have a very large shareholding in the fraud Worthington
I have obtained lots of e-mails, which the writers / recipients would have rather I had not and I have used them to embarrass the writer / recipient and deservedly so. I have been falsely accused by a US barrister of hacking his e-mail account to obtain one of them. However none of them have originated from any illegal activity and if I had to I could easily prove that, but why should I and why should Tom do anything to prove that he has not used “knowingly stolen info”? That is up to the person making the accusation to do.
hammer69
Tom,
Would be good to get a WRN update when you have time – for example have you decided, or been advised, not to publish anything further re Earley and even WRN (even if not sourced via documents from the whistleblower) ahead of Earley Part II at the end of the month?
TP