It is widely reported this morning that the Government has approved the publication of the long-awaited, much-delayed, and eagerly-anticipated Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024 … It will deal with issues such as the abolition of juries, the control of strategic litigation against publish participation (SLAPPs), live broadcasts, transient retail defamation, support for alternative resolution of defamation dispute, identifiability of anonymous online defamers, the prominence of corrections, and improvement of the defence of reasonable publication. A Government press release explains that … (more)
[Eoin O’Dell, Cearta, 25 July 2024]
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