to think it is not on to air other peoples dirty laundry like this?

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In the local paper today

"CONGRATULATIONS to XX XX and XX XX on (paraphrasing) successfully winning your court case against XX XX and others regarding XX ongoing care.

Now you can cut family ties with the XX, XX and XX and their vile facebook site. From your REAL family and friends"

I would be fecking FUMING if someone had put that in the local paper! It names everyone involved, the full name of what was actually fought in court....it was horrible.

Air your own dirty laundry if you must, but someone elses? I am sure they thought they were being supportive, but I would be horrified if that was me that had been named.

AIBU to think they should have kept their congratulations private?

Unless the people did it themselves to get attention? (highly possible..) Or they consented to it?

YANBU though, it is not on to do that really.

A whole new level of JK style drama..

Little that did cross my mind, in a "Hah! Up yours!" to the people they won the court case against. Which makes Highlanders word even more accurate....totally JK.

Yuck. Way back in the early sixties my sister's divorce was fully reported in the local paper, as was the norm. It was awful for her.

Depending on the area, local papers till report cases. However as 1 in 10 are for TV licence defaults it's not that interesting.

Unless it was a family court involving children, anyone can go and listen to any court case. It's public record.

This wasnt reported, this was in the Family Announcements bit (hatched matched and dispatched as my mother calls it) where you usually get congrats on births, engagements, big birthdays etc. So whoever was in the "REAL family and friends" group, paid to have this announcement put in!

If it involved children/vulnerable adults isn't that opening the advertiser up to the possibility of prosecution themselves?

ye gods that's crass, bleurgh!

not to mention tacky

Bock it didnt involve a child and I suspect from what was written it was the care of an elderly family member. Tbh, I smell an argument about money/POA.

sounds horrible. what a tacky thing to do.

Shocked at the paper for printing it.

In fact, sounds like the paper has left itself wide open if it didn't check all the facts first.

Jeremy Kyle Rejects

Eeeew. Not classy at all. Vindictiveness never looks good on paper, however justified whatever it was that drove it.

And yy to ?libel

Not sure about libel as there didnt seem to be any accusations, just facts of what the case was and who won.

Very stupid and tacky thing to do either way.

Most papers would refuse to print such a thing. But people do get furious about these family rows so I can kind of understand folk wanting to do this.

Small Update

Today there was an apology printed from the paper to the people named as the losers of the case. Not sure that they should be ones apologising tbh, but there you go!