Sentences with phrase «false statement of facts»

Indeed, there are some situations where even false statements of fact that relate to a person's reputation are protected from liability.

The charge, which was endorsed by the AGF stated that «such false statement of fact would harm the reputation of Mr Ibrahim Idris, the serving Inspector - General of Police, the Nigeria Police Force and the Police Service Commission.»

On Friday 28 May 2010, Woolas's Liberal Democrat opponent, Elwyn Watkins, issued an election petition against the result [40][41] under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, [42][43][44] which makes it illegal to make false statements of fact about a candidate.

The law on libel, slander, and defamation covers maliciously false statements of fact, not evaluations or opinions.

BTW, defamation under CA law requires «a verifiable false statement of fact» — based on DC's evidence, are you saying that the claim of Rapp «copying vast swathes of Wegman text without any attribution» is false beyond reasonable doubt?

The Defense of Valor Act, which made it a crime to misrepresent having received military honors or rank, was held unconstitutional despite the fact that it criminalized a knowing false statement of fact.

Claims of fraud generally allege that there was a knowingly false statement of fact that ultimately caused damage to another person.

The judge reasoned that many of the statements did not constitute verifiably false statements of fact, which is required for a defamation claim.

A qualified Internet defamation attorney can help you understand your options to have false statements of fact removed from the web under Internet libel (sometimes mistakenly referred to as Internet slander) and online defamation law.

If a new report truly is a false statement of fact that causes harm to someone's reputation, and if the news reporter has no actual factual basis for the factual claim, the First Amendment does permit the courts to impose both civil and criminal liability for the false statements, with civil suits brought by someone who is harmed and criminal liability enforced by the government.

There is an adequate list on Wikipedia of free speech exceptions, that for convenience I will replicate here: Communicative impact restrictions (e.g. incitement, elicitation) False statements of fact (e.g. libel, slander, perjury) Obscenity (very tightly interpreted, and only regulated in public)...

In California, the rule states, «It is the duty of an attorney... to employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to him or her those means only as are consistent with the truth, and never to mislead the judge or any judicial officer by an artifice or false statement of fact or law.»

In Canada, federal and many provincial Elections Acts state that anyone who, before or during an election, knowingly makes or publishes a «false statement of fact» designed to affect the results of the election in relation to the personal character or conduct of a candidate is guilty of an offence.

If within the text of a without Prejudice letter, there are false statements of facts (which the parties know to be false) and this letter contains a settlement offer, is is still considered priviledge?

Plus, if you can evidentiarily prove that a defendant made a false statement of fact, then it's possible to win a claim — even if the defendant told the truth.

The high court held in its 1988 decision that public figures and public officials could not recover damages for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress without an additional showing that «the publication contains a false statement of fact which was made with «actual malice,» i.e., with knowledge that the statement was false or with reckless disregard as to whether or not it was true.»