On 1 January 2014 the Defamation Act 2013 (‘the Act’) came into force. At the time, we published an article considering the individual provisions of the Act, and speculating about how the law of defamation had been changed. We first reviewed the practical impact of the Act in 2020, and now do so again, a decade on from the Act first coming into force. According to Lord Sumption, in Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd and Another [2019] UKSC 27, the Act sought ‘to modify some of the common law rules which were seen unduly to favour the protection of reputation at the expense of freedom of expression’ … (more)
Iain Wilson, Max Campbell, Tom Double and Percy Preston, Inforrm’s Blog, 30 December 2024
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