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UK equity manager launches action over "offensive", "pro-Brexit" Twitter account
Summary
Philip Rattle, managing partner of August Equity LLP, has filed High Court proceedings in London against a Twitter account he says impersonates him. Rattle claims the account, created in September 2018 using an outlook.com email, portrays him as a "Nationalist, Pro‑Brexit and Anti‑immigration" investor, and has posted defamatory, racist and anti‑immigrant remarks about public figures such as Sadiq Khan and Raheem Sterling. He says the tweets falsely label him a racist, anti‑Semite and bigot, damaging his reputation and privacy. Rattle reports receiving false messages and packages from the account, prompting him to install CCTV at his home. He seeks a Norwich Pharmacal order to compel Twitter and Microsoft Ireland to disclose the identity of the account's operators. The judge granted short notice to both companies and set the case for a return after the Easter recess.
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What: Report matter: UK equity manager launches action over "offensive", "pro-Brexit" Twitter account. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
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- September 2018 Other
- 2019-04-12 Publication
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- High Court
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