Sentences with word «defamatory»

Libel involves the making of defamatory statements in a printed or fixed medium, such as a magazine or newspaper.»

Successful High Court action in defamation against a well known leisure retailer following publication of defamatory statements against an individual.

There is a draft regulation on website owners» liability for defamatory comments posted on their sites.

This would mean that you would not be held liable for defamatory statements contained in it.

Google had been refusing to remove the allegedly defamatory material from its search engine results despite his requests, through a notice of application served to the company on Oct. 6 and followed by Niemela's personal requests via e-mail on Oct. 27 and 31.

Adam Josephs has a current case before the courts for $ 1.2 million over protesters who labeled him «Officer Bubbles» and made allegedly defamatory statements about him in the context of the G20.

Internet defamation, also known as online defamation or cyber defamation, occurs when one party makes or is accused of making defamatory comments about another party online.

The developers of Monero, in their turn, published defamatory posts about the insolvency of Antminer X3.

Secured summary judgment for internet commerce client in lawsuit arising out of alleged defamatory publications on an internet messaging board

Nsibiet John who publishes a local newspaper, The Ink, was ordered to be arrested for allegedly publishing defamatory materials against the deputy governor.

The posting contained defamatory allegations about C2's conduct during the author's divorce proceedings.

On September 13, 2017, Justice John Dixon of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, awarded Ms. Rebel Wilson an unprecedented $ 4,567,472 (AUD) in damages for defamatory articles published by Bauer Media Pty Ltd. and Bauer Media Australia Pty Ltd..

A federal court in New York has considered whether it could exercise jurisdiction over an Iowa website operator for allegedly defamatory remarks posted on the website.

The latter is the criterion in question in BoÜ / Ilsjan as both claimants allege that the non-material damage caused by defamatory information occurred in Estonia.

[90] I do not rule out the possibility that some speech may be so widely known to be false or unbelievable that its otherwise defamatory meaning is lost.

Do not delay in obtaining legal advice once you or your business becomes aware of defamatory words online.

Morleigh Homes v BBC Panorama (2016) Pre-publication Advice: BBC documentary programme with undercover footage making serious defamatory allegations about the mismanagement of care homes by the owners and mistreatment of residents by the staff.

The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, protects Facebook from being held responsible for such mishaps as the spread of hoax news stories — like the one that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox — as well as defamatory comments posted by users.

I read somewhere that a fictitious (and presumably false) statement will not be considered defamatory if the «sting» of the actual facts is greater than the false statement.

Accordingly, the judgment went partly for the claimants, and Hargreaves was asked to reveal the identities of four of the authors who had posted potentially defamatory statements on the bulletin board, as the right for the directors to maintain their reputations outweighed the right of the authors to protect their anonymity.

Mr El - Rufai had in February sued Mr Sani demanding N500 million for alleged defamatory statement contained in a publication.

Blake decided a good way to deal with this was to post defamatory reviews.

She was found liable for sending defamatory emails to their other neighbors and to the staff of their children's elementary school, claiming the couple were swingers and enjoyed «nude hot tub parties.»

On March 25, 2011, MacKinnon was arrested and charged with defamatory libel under section 301 of the Criminal Code after she posted on Facebook

The law will presume harm to reputation if defamatory nature of the statement is obvious.

This interpretation of the Libel and Slander Act means that if there is something defamatory online by any entity that could be defined as a newspaper — and we don't know what that definition will mean after this decision — that there will be a very, very strict notice requirement and a stricter limitation period and not adhering to those requirements under the Act will result in them losing their right of action.

Perhaps in an effort to illustrate the allegedly defamatory nature of the slip - up, the complaint quotes the article about John Grinston that featured Keith Grinston's photo:

[10] The appellants tried and failed to compare and analogize «the federal and provincial legislatures to municipal councils, while ignoring the machinery in the former to deal with defamatory remarks without resort to civil litigation.»

Surely you are not seriously suggesting that the email wasn't defamatory because the correspondence was surreptitious?

Slanderous remarks are spoken while libelous remarks are written and published (which means defamatory tweets could be considered libelous, not slanderous).

Finally, Justice Alito disagreed with the majority's focus on the speech having taken place on public property, noting that Courts have often condemned defamatory speech or «fighting words» even when they occur on public grounds.

Site that exhibits hate, bias, discrimination, pornography, libelous or otherwise defamatory content;

An order for an unconditional retraction and an unqualified apology for the said defamatory comments / broadcast / publication, doing so separately and in the Daily Graphic newspapers, and for same to be given equal prominence as the complained comments / broadcast / publication within 14 days from the day of judgment.

In the public relations field we strongly caution against those targeted in defamatory blog posts from responding to them directly unless warranted by special circumstances, which is why I agree with the statement made by Nied,

Devanney Joins Refresh Your Wealth Radio Show to Discuss How to Protect Your Online Reputation and Remove Defamatory Material

Justice Smith also suggested that online defamatory actions of this type might be considered unusually complex,

It was T. S. Eliot who asserted that April is the cruellest month, but he offered thin evidence to back his clearly defamatory claim.

The approach to writing any reference letter needs to be positive — writing defamatory comments or... Read More»

the alleged defamatory communications were contained in a letter to a town planner, which had a draft statement of claim attached to it.

You are oftentimes ambiguous, and have made defamatory accusations against at least one three of the scientists who hosts this blog.

Deliberately fake content, copied or stolen photos, off - topic reviews, defamatory language, personal attacks, and unnecessary or incorrect content are all in violation of our policy.

Slander is the act of saying something defamatory and untrue thus damaging the person or company in question.

A recent highlight saw Bainbridge act for a national charity in a dispute with a former employee who breached a compromise agreement by making statements to an international journal, and representing QCR Recycling Equipment against a competitor that allegedly made repeated defamatory statements and malicious falsehood claims.

That this was the intention of the 1st defendant, which is made clear by the opening paragraph of the letter which stated that the plaintiff had published defamatory matters concerning it.»