In other words, the plaintiff in a defamation action may be required to expend a considerable amount of money to bring the action, may experience significant negative publicity which repeats the false accusations, and if unsuccessful in the litigation may cement into the public consciousness the belief that
the defamatory accusations were true.
There should be no tolerance for false and
defamatory accusations as a means to gain political power.
You are oftentimes ambiguous, and have made
defamatory accusations against at least one three of the scientists who hosts this blog.
Hiding behind a pseuodonum while arguing science is tolerable, but doing it while making
defamatory accusations is cowardly.
Mark, you mentioned Mann's
defamatory accusation in the CG emails that our academic articles were «scientific fraud».
Not exact matches
We have been subject to a number of false and
defamatory briefings in the press from these two individuals, the most serious being an
accusation that any Conservatives involved in our campaign would have their data stolen for UKIP.
Also to avoid any
accusations of inconsistency, it is my understanding that
accusations of «fraud» can be
defamatory, but that it is virtually impossible for US «public figure» to demonstrate «actual malice» under US libel law and that libel judgements in Canada against US parties can not be enforced in the US.
-LSB-...]
accusations of fraud were «per se
defamatory».
It focuses instead on their clients false,
defamatory and libelous
accusations that my work is fraudulent.
I think it's clear that if the same standard were applied in the Mann case, none of the allegedly
defamatory statements are specific enough to be considered factual
accusations rather than mere opinions.
He filed a lawsuit asserting that the
accusation was false and
defamatory and I believe he would have prevailed had he not died prematurely before the case came to trial.
[edit —
defamatory and vague
accusations removed] will not convince anyone anymore.
Premier Kathleen Wynne has threatened Opposition Leader Tim Hudak with legal action if he doesn't retract «false, misleading and
defamatory»
accusations he made last week.