Antrim Women suing to US Sex-website on photo’s publishing

The High Court decided the woman go-ahead to take legal action against the site.

A Country Antrim woman whose personal pictures showed on a website for prostitutes has got legal authorization to file a case its US operators. 

A barrister for the woman, who cannot be recognized, submitted a writ claiming destroys for the abuse of photos taken by a former-colleague.

The case is very uncommon in that the defendant is working in Belize - outside the UK court's control.

However, the woman's lawyers obtained authorization to issue the court order.

The woman is saying that the firm is accountable of vilification and hateful falsehood against her.

Her solicitor, Hilary Carmichael, said: "She is claiming that she never agreed to the publication of her personal pictures. She got in touch the website when she thought that her pictures were on it and called for that the material be eliminated.

"But they still remained on the website. On the website, the claimant is represented as a prostitute and/or a sex worker and we are stating that the defendant has earned as a result of the posting to which our customer did not give permission."

The pictures had been taken by a former-associate during the time that they were dating. The woman never permitted to the photographs being shown by anybody else other than her colleagues.

"They were published unkindly by her ex-partner. The applicant reported the mishap to the police who told her there was not much they could do," said Ms Carmichael.

She said the photos had caused her customer "extensive worries" and the reality that the firm had ignored her asks to take down the photos had added to her pain.

"We are saying that there is a very good debatable case," she said.

"In the event that the photos are not eliminated, now that the writ has been given out, we have the right to pursued in the next coming days to hunt for an injunction enforcing the defendant to maker definite the pictures are eliminated and forcing a responsibility on the defendant to begin observing this kind of site."

The woman's barrister Peter Girvan said his customer was left thinking distressed at being falsely linked with the vice trade.

According to the court documents, four images of the woman shown on the site.

The writ also unveiled that a fight of harassment which led to her leaving her hometown and moving into a shelter may be linked to the unofficial publication.

Mr. Girvan is now set to issue injunction takings place in an offer to have the images taken down. He has also safe an order to protect the ambiguity of his client and any utilization of the photographs.

As part of a largest lawsuit, the woman is in search of destructions for the violation of personal details and being falsely portrayed as a prostitute.

Her case has been advanced by the High Court granting leave to serve proceedings out of jurisdiction on a defendant with a listed address in New York.