[thelist] targeting effectively

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Tue Mar 26 11:02:01 CST 2002


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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David

The point about precedents is that you don't need a lot of them,
particularly when they're merely an example of how primary legislation is
used, particularly when all the prime candidates for legal action (eg
http://www.smile.co.uk) have this annoying habit of redesigning before they
get that far, and others have settled out of court (AOL).

Essentially, though, you're asking "apart from the precedent, what
precedent is there?", which is a bit like "All right, but apart from the
sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads,
a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for
us?" (Life of Brian)

I can't think of any precedents where people were sent down for breaking
into online banks either, but I doubt I'd get away with it.

Cheers
Martin
(bothered with the mental arithmetic on impact of accessibility on profit
yet?)


ubject:     Re: [thelist] targeting effectively


Besides the Syndey Olympics (which was a publicly funded
event/organization), has there been any other precedent set by ANY court of
a web site found to discriminate (that was not a publicly funded
event/organization) or are we all blowing smoke?

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From: <martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com>
> And even more bottom line - it will cost your client money in lost
revenue
> (anyone complete the mental arithmetic teaser I threw out earlier?), and
> legal action, both of which will share themselves out to you.


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