James Glissan
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So to speak.
Yeah.
Non-publication orders.
And then there will be periods of time, I'm willing to bet, where there's a closed court.
So the jury will still hear it.
But it won't be able to be reported on.
Yeah, and this is a really common point of confusion and something I've been asked a lot.
When you're looking at the civil case, especially because it's a defamation case, which are notoriously risky to run because the defense is that people were telling the truth.
So it's always a gamble as to whether or not it's worth it.
In Ben's case, it wasn't.
And now we've got this compounding issue.
So in the civil case, it's balance of probabilities.
What does that mean?
Is it like 51%?
No, it's more vague than that.
So it's not a mathematical equation.
It's just to the fact finder, so to the judge, is it more likely than not
that the allegation was true.
Yeah.
And I think you can even expand it a little bit further, which might help understand what this really means, which is each fact.