Defamation Claim Scotland

[Drwuk]

Hi

I'm looking for some help.

My ex employee has served me with a writ intending to sue for Defamation and Libel.

I have 2 days remaining to submit my intention to defend.

The pursuers are claiming I went onto a job board, uploaded a fictitious CV of him with defamation comments, malicious and defamatory comments.

Then said I sent this to some people via this job board. The people seem to be a client whom he knows.

My defence is that I didn't do it and plan to contest jurisdiction as they have not supported their claim with any actual proof other than a few days before I resigned and we had an argument.

There has been no productions or notes within the condensendences which point to myself.

Other employees had the password to this job board and anyone could have done this.

I am intending on using "denied" with a brief outline for each point and in pleas of law state their is no jurisdiction

The question I'm looking help for is what defence doi have in case of law to state that without proof of claim that it was myself who did this other than circumstantial, can I use case law similar from other courts, say Canada etc where similar cases were thrown out as the author could not be established and the IP address of someone only is evidence of a router or address and not actually the person who authored or wrote anything.

Thanks in advance.

[EXC]

Re: Defamation Claim Scotland

Is the claim being brought by an individual or a company?

The pursuers are claiming I went onto a job board, uploaded a fictitious CV of him with defamation comments, malicious and defamatory comments.

Who is 'him'?

[Amethyst]

Re: Defamation Claim Scotland

and, did you do it ?

if not, why would he think you did ?

presumably things were acrimonious between you when he left the company ?

Do you know who did upload the fake CV ? Have you seen it ? etc