A Note About Blogs

A weblog or "blog" is basically a personal internet journal cum bulletin board. An unrestricted weblog or "blog" is an internet website which enables anyone with internet access to post comments. A restricted weblog permits the posting of comments only by authorised users.

Although blogs are a relatively new phenomenon, they have grown like topsy in the recent past. Some reports put the current number of blogs at in excess of 15 million, up from 7.8 million a mere 6 months ago. These days, a brief surf of the internet will turn up blogs on just about any subject.

However, just because they are relatively new and cyberspace-based doesn’t mean that blogs are immune from the law of the land.

The operator of a motor vehicle dealership was recently able to obtain an injunction in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against a blogger (the operator of a blog) who had set up a blog apparently specifically to disparage the dealership (the blogger’s car having been stolen from the