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Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law.The history of defamation law in England is somewhat obscure; civil actions for damages seem to have been relatively frequent as far back as the Statute of Gloucester in the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). [1]
The Act changed a number of defamation procedures. All defamation cases under the Senior Courts Act 1981 in the Queens Bench Division, and the County Courts Act 1984, which were "tried with a jury" unless the trial requires prolonged examination of documents, are now "tried without a jury", unless the court orders otherwise.
A former police officer has been sacked for sending offensive WhatsApp messages to colleagues, a police force said. Former PC Samuel Thacker, a response officer based in Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
Although freedom of expression and protection of privacy over the Internet is guaranteed by UK law, since about 2010 there has been an increasing shift towards authoritarian measures such as increased surveillance (The United Kingdom has more police surveillance cameras than anywhere else outside of China) and police action.
Former police officer sent to jail for 18 months. Force sacks officer convicted of sexual assault. Officer struck and discriminated against Polish man. Related internet links. Cambridgeshire ...
A father and daughter who were both police officers, exchanged "hostile" and "discriminatory" messages with each other about crime victims and colleagues, it has emerged. In one message, the dad ...
Some common law jurisdictions distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. [26] The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting ...
A police officer has been convicted of several offences, including controlling and coercive behaviour, following a five-week trial. Former Avon and Somerset PC Mitchell Curtis, 34, was found ...