Defamation Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom relating to defamation. It supersedes the short title Libel Act.
The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Defamation Bill during its passage through Parliament.
Defamation Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to defamation.
DefamationAct 2001 The DefamationAct Amendment Act 1886 The DefamationAct 1901 (No 22) The Defamation (Amendment) Act 1909 (No 22) The Defamation Act...
[additional citation(s) needed] Defamation and related laws can encompass a variety of acts (from general defamation and insult – as applicable to every...
many countries are originally descended from English defamation law. The history of defamation law in England is somewhat obscure; civil actions for...
The DefamationAct 2013 (c 26) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which reformed English defamation law on issues of the right to freedom...
to commencing defamation proceedings. Section 12B(1) of the DefamationAct states: (1) An aggrieved person cannot commence defamation proceedings unless—...
Wales and Verbal injury. See English defamation law#Justification This section was repealed by the DefamationAct 2013. This section was repealed by Part...
adjudicating defamation claims. The Punjab DefamationAct 2024 has been challenged in the Lahore High Court. The petitioners claim that the new defamation law...
incompatible with the constitution's guarantee of religious equality. The DefamationAct 2009 included a provision intended to fill the lacuna while being "virtually...
Justice Functions) Order 2010. DefamationAct English defamation law Claire Sandford and Fiona Boyle. The DefamationAct 1996: The New Law. (Impact Series)...
judicial non-publication or suppression orders, defamation law, the federal Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), film and literature (including video...
be untrue, is protected against action for defamation in UK law. In the United Kingdom, the DefamationAct 2013 provides a public interest defence. The...
unconstitutional. Both blasphemous libel and seditious libel were abolished by the DefamationAct 2009, which also created new crime of "publication or utterance of blasphemous...
judge could show involuntary bias", the first such request since the DefamationAct 2013 and it was refused. Court documents revealed that this request...
subsequently raised successfully in several defamation proceedings. The defence was abolished by s4(6) DefamationAct 2013, being replaced with the statutory...
"the judgment includes recovery for a claim of defamation unless the court determines that the defamation law applied by the foreign court provided at least...
provisions of the DefamationAct 2009 were repealed upon the commencement of the Blasphemy (Abolition of Offences and Related Matters) Act 2019 on 17 January...
tort of libel. This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 4 of, and Part 2 of Schedule 1 to, the DefamationAct, 1961. The preamble...
Malaysia Act 1963, which extended the DefamationAct 1957 to Singapore, then a state in the Federation of Malaysia. Since the Act, now the DefamationAct (Cap...
making a defamation claim for these statements do not need to prove that the statement caused them actual damages. (See section Defamation per se.) Laws...
defamation is covered by Article 166 of the Strafgesetzbuch, the German criminal law. If a deed is capable of disturbing the public peace, defamation...
purported abuse of the defamation tort system generally discussed separately by policymakers addressing SLAPP lawsuits. Defamation suits, particularly when...
16 of the DefamationAct 1961. The proviso was not reproduced. This section provides that the Act may be cited as the Slander of Women Act 1891 and that...
On 25 April 2013 the DefamationAct 2013 received Royal Assent and became law. The purpose of the reformed law of defamation is to 'ensure that a fair...
Canadian defamation law refers to defamation law as it stands in both common law and civil law jurisdictions in Canada. As with most Commonwealth jurisdictions...
The Guardian. "DefamationAct 2013: Libel Reform Campaign Briefing". www.niassembly.gov.uk. Byrne, Matt (7 May 2013). "Can new Act clean up libel law...
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