By Tom Winnifrith & Roger Lawson | Monday 26 February 2018
Roger Lawson and Tom Winnifrith have agreed that Mr Lawson's legal action against Tom Winnifrith for libel will not be pursued further. Life is too short. Both men are agreed that nearly all of the work done by each other on seeking reform of AIM and in campaigning against poor corporate governance is worthwhile. There are too many ways in which the stock market needs reform and too many individuals who break the rules that do exist, for energies and money to be wasted on a fight that will enrich only lawyers.
Tom Winnifrith stated: I stand by my assertion that Roger Lawson should have declared ownership of shares when writing about them at all times and it would have been better practice to have advised readers to sell before doing so himself. But Roger acted in line with the rules for the ShareSoc blog and other publications. More importantly I am sure that he did not act in the way he did in order to secure personal financial gain. Nor did he secure a gain as a result. Roger can be somewhat cantankerous but his heart is normally in the right place; he is not the sort of man I want to be fighting, especially as on most issues we are in agreement. My energies should be focussed on the bad guys and Roger is not one of them.
Roger Lawson stated: Like most people I find Tom Winnifrith's language not always to my liking. However on most occasions when he goes after a company his judgement is shown to be correct and in doing that he performs a valuable service. In publishing the Globo dossier he showed bravery other journalists baulked at and with hindsight he asked all the right questions of blinkx and Globo. Since we agree on far more than we disagree on it is right that instead of making lawyers rich with any law suit we both move on and continue to offer fair criticisms of the London market and to fight on behalf of ordinary investors.
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