Am I going to get myself into trouble?

[removalman]

This might be an unusual request for guidance...

I am in dispute with a company relating to getting a refund for repair work charged for but not completed. There are a large number of forums that are critical of this company including Trust Pilot etc.

Anyway, I carried out a company search on this dodgy organisation and of course as part of that I now have the director/owner (100% shareholder) full name and home address. I have written to the dodgy company concerned and suggested that unless they give me a refund (a relatively small sum in the scale of things, £135.00), that I will publish the directors full name and home address on all of the numerous forums. They in turn have threatened me with their lawyers for if I publish "confidential" information.

So my question is this...

If this information is already in the public domain and readily accessible by the public, will I get in deep trouble for going ahead with my threat to publish unless they give me a refund? I could do without being on the wrong end of lawsuit.

Help please...

[ostell]

Re: Am I going to get myself into trouble?

Name and address is probably not a problem if this data came from Companies House. However blackmailing the director is a no no.

[Amethyst]

Re: Am I going to get myself into trouble?

Yip, completely with Ostell there, the name and address is publicly accessible info, and you could link to the relevant docs on companies house beta, BUT threatening to make public a persons home address with malicious intent is a whole different ball game and it does seem like blackmail, so I would withdraw that threat, apologise and stay off the forums for a bit xx

Have you tried the normal channels to obtain a refund ? Do you want to have a look at legitimately sorting out the issue with the company ?
How did you originally pay for the repair work ? Do you have relevant eveidences of what the company were meant to do and what they did/didn't do ? Have you considered court action against the company etc ?