SLAPP Censorship - Part 56 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP's Copy-Paste Machination for Garrett and Graveley

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 24, 2026

Two days ago we showed yet more examples of 'copypasta' in the claims of Garrett and Graveley, who had connived to attack my family and I (Garrett has since then admitted this after swearing on the Bible).

Here is another straightforward example of their junior barrister overusing copy-paste on his Mac because I refused to censor information about Graveley's arrest for strangulation in another continent.

Here are, for convenience's sake, the Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims shown side by side:

This is a scandal for 5RB; if a lot of this co-called 'industry' does the same, then it's a scandal that the public needs to know about and definitely a matter of considerable public interest. This is a lot worse than LLM slop and people should not be paid over a thousand pounds per hour to just copy-paste some text, then throw it at people - such as pro bono bloggers - to spend tens of thousands of pounds putting together a Defence.

The regulator must be made aware of this and yesterday we contacted 5RB, not just the police (which also phoned us back as it is a serious matter).

Our barrister, who came from Ofcom (where he had worked for many years), was very much irritated by what Garrett and Graveley had done and encouraged us to "write about it".

As the Poles put it: "Lawsuits are temporary. Glory is forever. Go public."

Here is how I responded to the above claims from Graveley, a Microsoft employee when he was charged for strangulation:

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• v.This claim is denied. This “digital footprint” is the fault of the Claimant, a site documenting what happened is just telling the story. Whether this persists in the future is outside the control of Techrights and perhaps women will be safer – maybe their life spared – if they became better informed about this individual. Here, like in prior paragraphs, there is disturbing similarity to the Garrett Case; see the Defence to the analogous claims in the Garrett Case. To put it bluntly, the public deserves to know that bad people are bad. It is moreover important for society at large to keep track of people’s behaviour, including past record. 

• vi.This claim is also denied as the “gravevine effect” is outside the control of Techrights, which never engaged in social media or other “gossip” sites. Techrights merely presented documents and provided technical explanations of things Mr. Graveley had done. Whether some sites out there on the Web or people offline talk about what they read is outside the control of the site, so finger-pointing must deal not with “shockwaves” but rather the core substance. As the Defendant is not in social media he has neither witnessed this “gravevine effect”, nor does he place weight on it. Accuracy is what matters, not rumours being spread in sites where liability is “up in the air”. That the Claimant has abused and harassed people by attacking them online and offline, including by means of physical interference, is a matter of fact. Techrights provided supporting evidence. 

   

• 11. Paragraph 11 speaks of the personal experience of the Claimant, which cannot be verified by the Defendant and is thus not admitted, even denied. Even if it is true that suffered “distress and embarrassment”, he must consider what  distress and embarrassment he inflicted upon certain women and what plagiarism did to many people whose code was taken away (without them being aware). Having been robbed  by reckless opportunists who relied on his work (a “blender” of code of other people), Mr. Graveley’s controversial and likely illegal LLM experiments merit no sympathy. 

   

  1. 1.What merits further scrutiny is  the timing of key events in the circles of both litigants - notably higher ups whom they are both connected to and pose for photos with. Miguel de Icaza, for instance (GNOME co-founder, Graveley and Garrett are both GNOME) was joking with Garrett in public when Garrett was looking for lawyers to do something "mostly funny  for a reduced rate".  Garrett wrote to him in social media on November 25 (about a week earlier): "Thanks for the evidence I've been part of the conspiracy for 20 years" (more on this in Appendix V). 

      

  2. 2.Miguel de Icaza, the right-hand man of Microsoft along with Nat Friedman (they co-founded companies), are highly connected to the lawsuits. As former CEO of GitHub, Nat Friedman remained on Microsoft's C-suite and he was a "best friend" of Graveley, according to Graveley's partner at the time (Miguel de Icaza affirmed this directly). Matthew Garrett filed the first lawsuit threat against Roy 8 days after Nat Friedman had left Microsoft GitHub (following the Graveley scandals), so one can assume there could be overlap between the threat and the GNOME team having a crisis (months later Miguel de Icaza left as well).  Matthew Garrett also filed the first lawsuit just a day after an important new article about  Nat Friedman. A full chronology is provided in Appendix V. 

   

  1. 3.Posted by a Microsoft-funded site called GeekWire was also a new photo of Mr. Graveley and Mr. Friedman next to one another (they were partnering on stage based on a LinkedIn album; several photos of them in tandem). That happened only a few days before Matthew Garrett filed his lawsuit (that Graveley publicly spoke about, as shown in his own Web site, where he described Garrett as "another former Microsoft researcher" (Garrett did confirm to Roy that Microsoft had sought to hire him).While there may be no "smoking gun" evidence (like a leaked E-mail admitting a collusion in unambiguous terms) connecting these events and explaining the sequence/timing, it is strong circumstantial evidence regarding 1) the motivations and 2) the strong personal and professional connections. 

      

  2. 4.What's demonstrated here is a clear case of SLAPP.   As per the UK government's page, concerning its aforementioned consultation on SLAPPs: "Those who responded told us about the personal and professional toll of these claims," said the page, "careers put on hold, soaring anxiety, and fear of financial ruin. And, most worryingly, we heard of the chilling effect of SLAPPs, with media and others intimidated into abandoning critical stories in the face of crippling legal costs." 

      

  3. 5.This is exactly the aim of these claims, on which the government commented with the stance that "[w]here relevant cases are identified and do not meet the merit test, they will be thrown out. [... they] believe this strikes the right balance - properly identifying SLAPPs, while allowing genuine claims to continue, and deterring those who seek to exploit our courts with action deliberately designed to ramp up costs and waste time." 

      

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More to come in the weekend. █

Previously:

2026-03-03	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 1 Out of 200: Claim No. KB-2024-001270 in a Nutshell
2026-03-04	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 2 Out of 200: Detailed Timeline From 2012 (Attack on Reporters That Question Restricted Boot) to 2024 (Lawsuit Against Reporter and His Wife in Another Continent)
2026-03-05	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 3 Out of 200: A More In-Depth Breakdown
2026-03-06	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 4 Out of 200: Rianne’s Version of Events and Narrative
2026-03-07	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 5 Out of 200: Clearly Not a Security Professional/Expert, Only Ever Pretending to be One
2026-03-08	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 6 Out of 200: Intentionally Misnaming Women, People Who Offered to Testify That They Too Had Been Subjected to Similar Abuse
2026-03-09	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 7 Out of 200: Like With the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Misuse of UK-GDPR to Try to Hide Embarrassing Facts
2026-03-10	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 8 Out of 200: Gross Misuse of UKGDPR to Protect the Agenda of American Back Doors (Mass Surveillance)
2026-03-11	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 9 Out of 200: 5RB Barrister Does Not Even Know the Name of His Own Client (That He Was Paid Well Over $200,000 to 'Speak' or 'Cover' for)
2026-03-12	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 10 Out of 200: Showing Public Tweets is Not a Privacy Violation, But This Isn't About Justice, It's About Censorship
2026-03-13	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 11 Out of 200: Cannot Censor His Spouse, Accusations Are Repeated Today
2026-03-14	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 12 Out of 200: Months Ahead of Serial Strangler From Microsoft Who Helped Double the Lawsuits (Funded by Third Parties) as 'Revenge' for Exposing Crimes
2026-03-15	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 13 Out of 200: Abuse of Process to Make False Accusations of UKGDPR Violations
2026-03-16	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: The Abusive Cases of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft and His Litigation Buddy Garrett Did Cause "Serious Harm"
2026-03-17	Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: Men Who Strangle Women (and Worse) Trying to Force Us to Write Public Apologies to These Men
2026-03-18	SLAPP Censorship - Part 15 Out of 200: Background and Particulars of Truth Regarding Techrights and Tux Machines
2026-03-19	SLAPP Censorship - Part 16 Out of 200: Detailing the Actors and Explaining Techrights' Own Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Network
2026-03-20	SLAPP Censorship - Part 17 Out of 200: A Long Track Record of Online Abuse, Then Choosing a Low-Cost Law Firm to Muzzle People Who Have Illuminated This Abuse for Over a Decade
2026-03-21	SLAPP Censorship - Part 18 Out of 200: Third Parties Funding Attacks on the Messengers, Lawsuits Against GAFAM-Critical Voices That Uphold Real National Security
2026-03-22	SLAPP Censorship - Part 19 Out of 200: They Were Ill-prepared for Tough Questions in Cross-Examination
2026-03-23	SLAPP Censorship - Part 20 Out of 200: All Roads Lead to Rome and to GAFAM Funding
2026-03-24	SLAPP Censorship - Part 21 Out of 200: It's About Behaviour Online, Not How Much Money From Shadowy Third Parties Gets Spent on Lawyers and Two Barristers
2026-03-24	SLAPP Censorship - Part 22 Out of 200: When You Complain People Impersonate You in IRC (But You Yourself Impersonate People in IRC and Lock Them Out of Their IRC Handles)
2026-03-25	SLAPP Censorship - Part 23 Out of 200: We Were Right All Along (for 2 Years) About Third Party Funding and Willingness to 'Break the Bank' in Pursuit of "Revenge"
2026-03-26	SLAPP Censorship - Part 24 Out of 200: The Failed Effort by Brett Wilson LLP to Strike Out My Lawsuit and My Wife's Lawsuit Against Garrett (the Master Allowed Our Lawsuits to Proceed)
2026-03-27	SLAPP Censorship - Part 25 Out of 200: That Time Matthew J. Garrett Got Temporarily Banned/Suspended From Twitter
2026-03-28	SLAPP Censorship - Part 26 Out of 200: Asking for Documents and Information You Already Have, Even Letters and E-mails That You Yourself Sent!
2026-03-29	SLAPP Censorship - Part 27 Out of 200: Using the Tor Network to Hide From Consequences
2026-03-30	SLAPP Censorship - Part 28 Out of 200: Facing Consequences for Impersonation and Worse
2026-03-31	SLAPP Censorship - Part 29 Out of 200: Violent Language Won't Go Away When You Use It in Your Site, Blog, and Social Control Media
2026-04-01	SLAPP Censorship - Part 30 Out of 200: The Time We Reported Abuse to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and It Was Escalated to Its Cybercrime Unit
2026-04-02	SLAPP Censorship - Part 31 Out of 200: Speaking About 20+ Years of Alleged Harassment/Defamation and High-Profile 'Targets' of Garrett
2026-04-03	SLAPP Censorship - Part 32 Out of 200: Garrett Made Spurious Requests (Later Withdrawn) the Same Week Someone He Later Spoke to by E-mail Sent Threats to Our Webhost
2026-04-03	SLAPP Censorship - Part 33 Out of 200: Garrett Sued by My Wife and I, Then His Microsoft Acquaintance Files Another Lawsuit and Our Webhost Receives Legal Threats Too
2026-04-04	SLAPP Censorship - Part 34 Out of 200: The Necessity of Transparency, Illuminating Garrett's and Graveley's 'Tag-Team' Act, Misusing the British Docket (From Far Away in America) in Efforts to Hide Bad Behaviour
2026-04-05	SLAPP Censorship - Part 35 Out of 200: How to Make ~10,000 Pound Sterling (13,220.50 United States Dollars) by Copy-Pasting and Editing 10 Pages
2026-04-06	SLAPP Censorship - Part 36 Out of 200: Claim KB-2024-003529 in a Nutshell (Microsoft Employee Does Terrible Things, Then Sues the Reporter in Another Continent)
2026-04-07	SLAPP Censorship - Part 37 Out of 200: The Correct Suspicion Garrett and Graveley Were Collaborating in Overseas Litigation Against Critics
2026-04-08	SLAPP Censorship - Part 38 Out of 200: Advertisement or £10,000+ Classified Ad in the Form of Court Filing in Another Continent
2026-04-08	SLAPP Censorship - Part 39 Out of 200: Recycled Text for Garrett and Graveley (Buy One, Get One Free?)
2026-04-09	SLAPP Censorship - Part 40 Out of 200: Putting Forth Frivolous Claim Only a Few Days Before Running Out of Time (12 Months)
2026-04-10	SLAPP Censorship - Part 41 Out of 200: More Misuse of UK-GDPR (for US Citizens), More Copy-Pasting for Garrett and Graveley, Alleging That Publishing Unflattering Information is a 'Privacy' Issue
2026-04-10	SLAPP Censorship - Part 42 Out of 200: Getting the Very Basic Technical Concepts Very Wrong, or Where Miscomprehension Begets "Plausible Deniability"
2026-04-11	SLAPP Censorship - Part 43 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims Almost Identical and 5RB Needs to Investigate Its Barristers (Its Reputation is at Stake)
2026-04-12	SLAPP Censorship - Part 44 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley 'Copypasta' Sunday (Copy-Paste, Add One Word, Change 'T' to 't')
2026-04-13	SLAPP Censorship - Part 45 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Cases Inherently the Same, Their Legal Team Can Barely Even Distinguish (Full Timeline)
2026-04-14	SLAPP Censorship - Part 46 Out of 200: Alex Graveley's Attorney Rick Cofer Did Not Deny That Graveley Had Strangled Women; He Did, However, Pay Local Officials
2026-04-14	SLAPP Censorship - Part 47 Out of 200: British Courts Are Not Censorship Offices for Americans Funded by Affluent Third Parties
2026-04-16	SLAPP Censorship - Part 48 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Copy-Pasting Bogus Claims for Violent Americans (Microsoft) Who Tell Women to Kill Themselves
2026-04-17	SLAPP Censorship - Part 49 Out of 200: Two Americans, One Case, Recycled for Low Budget at Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Barristers
2026-04-18	SLAPP Censorship - Part 50 Out of 200: The Time Staff of Law Firm Burgess Mee Was Showing Up in Letters Sent for a Serial Strangler From Microsoft
2026-04-19	SLAPP Censorship - Part 51 Out of 200: On Perjury and What It Means to Take Third-Party Funding to Attack Reporter and His Family (in Another Continent)
2026-04-20	SLAPP Censorship - Part 52 Out of 200: Phil Golding Appointed Bar Standards Board (BSB) Chief, Misogyny Must End
2026-04-21	SLAPP Censorship - Part 53 Out of 200: The Lying Solicitor of Alex Graveley Left Brett Wilson LLP Only Days or Few Weeks After the Garrett Trial (Attended by Almost Their Entire Office/Team)
2026-04-22	SLAPP Censorship - Part 54 Out of 200: Alex-Matt/Automate Twin Cases, Separated at Birth, Drafted by Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB
2026-04-23	SLAPP Censorship - Part 55 Out of 200: Strangled Women, Charged for Strangulation, Cannot Find a Job Now (After Microsoft)