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A High Court judge has ruled that the Mail can go ahead with an honest opinion defence in a trial, which will include their claim that Prince Harry made misleading statements about offering to pay ...
The honest opinion defence (formerly the fair comment defence) is sometimes known as "the critic's defence" as it is designed to protect the right of the press to state valid opinions on matters of public interest such as governmental activity, political debate, public figures and general affairs.
Openness in government is hard work, but it creates better informed and more involved citizens. | Opinion
Section 4 of the Defamation Act 2013 created the defence of "publication on a matter of public interest". This replaced the common law Reynolds defence, abolished by subsection 4(6). [7] However the ten criteria set out in Reynolds are still considered relevant in some circumstances when considering whether a publication was in the public interest.
But reforming and transforming the Department of Defense are aspirations, not actions. When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed, the main threat to the U.S. and its allies vaporized.
Honest opinion: It is a defence for defamation, to show the statement complained of was a statement of opinion; that it indicated, in general or specific terms, the basis of the opinion; that an honest person could have held the opinion on any fact which existed when the statement was published, including any fact in a privileged statement that ...
It is time to begin thinking about second-best approaches.
On 8 July Shanks' legal team responded by filing a truth defence, supported by an honest opinion defence for a subset of claims. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] In June 2021, friendlyjordies producer Kristo Langker was arrested by officers from the Fixated Persons Unit (FPU), a specialised counterterrorism police unit who often targets lone wolf terrorists ...