Defamation : law, procedure & practice
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Defamation : law, procedure & practice
Sweet & Maxwell, 2009
4th ed
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Defamation : law, procedure and practice
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Previous ed.: 2004
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Defamation Law, Procedure and Practice aims to provide practitioners and journalists, students and litigants with a solid and clear exposition of the law relating to Defamation. This new edition looks at procedure and tactics as well as providing invaluable pre-publication advice both for publishers and those on the receiving end of a defamatory attack.
Table of Contents
- Part One#What the Claimants must Prove
- General
- The defamatory statement
- Publication
- Identification
- Slander claims and special damages
- Malicious falsehood
- Part Two#Defences
- General
- Justification
- Fair comment
- Privilege#general
- Absolute privilege
- Qualified privilege#duty and interest
- Qualified privilege#Reynolds
- Qualified privilege#reports
- Secondary responsibility
- Offer of amends
- Miscellaneous defences and prohibitions or restrictions on bringing a defamation claim
- Malice
- Part Three#Remedies
- General
- Damages
- Injunctions
- Apologies
- Part Four#Procedure, Strategy and Tactics
- General considerations for claimants
- General considerations for defendants
- Defamation and the CPR
- Commencing a defamation claim
- Jurisdiction#claims with a foreign element
- Statements of case
- Summary disposal and strike out
- Disclosure and further information
- From CMC to trial
- Trial
- Appeals
- Costs, security for costs and conditional fees
- Part Five#Specific Considerations
- Internet
- Pre-publication considerations for publishers
- Considerations for a person facing a threatened defamatory publication
- Part Six#Human Rights and Privacy
- Human Rights Act 1998
- Defamation and privacy.
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