Delfi plans to appeal against the ruling favouring Vjacheslav Leedo
30.06.2008, 09:35Estonian online portal Delfi that belongs
to Ekspress Grupp plans to appeal the ruling made by the court in favour of
businessman Vjacheslav Leedo.
„We are not happy with the court ruling since operators of such online
portals cannot be responsible for the comments made by their readers,“ Andrus
Raudsalu, CEO of Delfi, told Äripäev.
Raudsalu said that Delfi would appeal against the ruling. „This is not the
question of compensation we must pay Leedo, but it is a principle issue,“ said
Raudsalu, adding that Delfi refuses to pay damages to Leedo awarded by the
court.
On Friday Harju County Court decided to uphold the action filed by
businessman Vjacheslav Leedo against Delfi for personal insults made against him
in comments written by the readers of Delfi and awarded Delfi to pay Leedo EEK
5,000 kroons. Leedo had claimed EEK 25,000 in damages per insulting comment or a
total of half a million kroons.