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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]
Proponents of the law and Irish authors have warned that Belfast might replace London as the new capital for "libel tourism". [9] Additionally, there are worries that UK newspapers would either need to end Northern Ireland editions, or else be forced to comply by the old guidelines in their stories. [10]
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 ...
Substantial truth is a legal doctrine affecting libel and slander laws in common law jurisdictions such as the United States or the United Kingdom. United States law
“The law as to fair comment, so far as is material to the present case, stands as follows: In the first place, comment in order to be justifiable as fair comment must appear as comment and must not be so mixed up with the facts that the reader cannot distinguish between what is report and what is comment: see Andrews v.
An Act to amend the law relating to libel and slander and other malicious falsehoods. Citation: 15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 66: Territorial extent England and Wales and Scotland. [2] Dates; Royal assent: 30 October 1952: Commencement: 30 November 1952
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The Libel Act 1843, commonly known as Lord Campbell's Libel Act, [4] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It enacted several important codifications of and modifications to the common law tort of libel. This Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 4 of, [5] and Part 2 of Schedule 1 to, [6] the Defamation Act, 1961.