Sentences with phrase «about matters of public interest»

The news media are defined as those who are regularly engaged in the reporting and publishing of news or information about matters of public interest.

We recognized her case was a classic SLAPP suit — someone who is just speaking out about a matter of public interest and suddenly finds herself the defendant in a lawsuit,» says Callaway.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

Not exact matches

«The other goes at the heart of what the media are supposed to be doing, which is informing the public about things that might be matters of interest to them but which corporate America might not be interested in sharing with them.»

And this is where the nuts of the matter really lays, The board are made up of Ex merchant banker public schoolboys whose interest in Football begins and ends with the share price Men who are more interested in smoking big cigars and drinking brandy in private members clubs than seeing the club that they represent winning a trophy and clucking about how many millions they have in the bank, Parody?

It thus becomes more of a report to the profession on matters that interest people within the field than a report to the public about how well that field is serving the nation.

In one of the first rulings in the nation on the public's right to access information about the effectiveness of public school teachers, a judge in Los Angeles upheld that teacher performance ratings are a matter of «keen public interest» and should be released.

Practically speaking, though, that, too, is a non-issue... if people are talking about you, it's because either you're a public figure or the subject matter is of public interest).

She argued that her views about the declining quality of music programmes was widely shared and a matter of public interest.

That defence provides that, even if the statements made or comments published defame the Plaintiff, if the matter communicated about is of public interest and the defendant acted responsibly with proper diligence, defamatory statements will not attract liability.

The reason I am writing about this is that while ordinary litigants, who go to court to assert or defend their own legal rights and interests, are perfectly entitled not to care about what the public knows about their cases, it seems to me that public interest litigants, who ostensibly pursue matters not on their own behalf but on that of the public at large or at least of some section of the public, are, in my view, in a different position.

The First Amendment protects the right to gather information about what public officials do on public property, and specifically, a right to record matters of public interest

Responded to guest inquiries about hotel services, checkout times, the local community and other matters of public interest