Feature: “Straightforward legal blackmail”: a tale of P2P lawyering

On January 26, 2010, the UK’s Lord Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall—yes, it’s a real title—stood up and told his fellow peers in the House of Lords that the new crop of anti-P2P “settle or we’ll sue your trousers off” warning letters were a travesty of justice.

“In a civil procedure on a technical matter, it amounts to blackmail,” thundered the libertarian lord-slash-blogger. “The cost of defending one of these things is reckoned to be £10,000. You can get away with asking for £500 or £1,000 and be paid on most occasions without any effort having to be made to really establish guilt. It is straightforward legal blackmail.”

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