We’ve blogged often about Charlotte Wyatt, the little girl who was born prematurely to Darren and Debbie Wyatt in Portsmouth, England. Charlotte is three now, and every year of her life has been a tremendous fight to stay alive. The National Health Service fought for a “do not resuscitate order”, and won from the courts over the strenuous objections of her parents. Now the courts have ruled that Charlotte can’t live with her family, but must go to a foster home. Darren is fighting to continue to take care of her, but so far it has been a loosing battle.

Then yesterday, blogger took down the Charlotte Wyatt site hosted at blogspot without notice, saying that a British court had issued an injunction against the site. The blog had been regularly updated with pictures and news of Charlotte.

Fortunately, most of the blog was available in the google cache and moved very soon afterwards to a new site SaveCharlotte.com. Hannah, one of the bloggers at Save Charlotte writes:

Past experience has taught us that trust in the “system” and their views about what is best for disabled children is, at best, badly misplaced, and we feel that it is important that information about Charlotte’s case is available to the public. Therefore this blog will continue to be maintained.

The shutdown of Charlotte Wyatt’s blogspot site raises important questions. I’m not a lawer, but I thought Blogger was an American company based in California. Why did it listen automatically to a court order from a foreign country? Is Blogger also registered in the UK? Are there courts in other countries that can give similar injunctions to take down Blogger sites?

Lord Matt is hosting the google cache. Perhaps SaveCharlotte.com should be mirrored elsewhere as well, so that whatever happens information about her will not be wiped out.