BNP Membership List: Analysis of Legal Position for Blogs

Wow – within two minutes of putting up my last post with the details of the BNP membership list I was sent warnings from concerned readers. I am aware of the Analysis of Legal Position for Blogs. I am not in a position to verify the validity of the list but I am also aware that since over 24hrs have passed since the list was made public, it has been published many times already and is now in the public domain. I would not expect anyone to take any actions concerning the people on this list without validating and verifying it 100% first – I certainly wouldn’t trust any information that came by way of a BNP supporter!
If I receive a polite request from a lawyer to remove the links to the list then I will probably comply as long as they give me valid legal justification for doing so. I am not a lawyer and thus am not fully aware of the law surrounding libel, I am merely pointing people to publicly available information that is highly topical and newsworthy.