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  • 18-05-2011 5:24pm
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    mossie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭


    Any legal experts here care to have a look at this thread and clarify the law / implications raised in post 5 and subsequent posts?

    Thanks


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    234
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    Well first of all there is an absolute defence to defamaiton of truth. In the situation described everything would be true and therefore cannot be defamatory. Some people are arguing that you need to name the person; not strictly true. You need to identify them which can be done by implication. The thing to remember is that you can say almost anything about somebody if you can prove that it is all true.
    If you are really intereste here's a link to the Defamation Act 2009 which codifies the law in this area.


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    FreudianSlippers
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    Funny, I was just looking at that thread myself before I saw this.


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    mossie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭mossie


    234 wrote: »
    Well first of all there is an absolute defence to defamaiton of truth. In the situation described everything would be true and therefore cannot be defamatory. Some people are arguing that you need to name the person; not strictly true. You need to identify them which can be done by implication. The thing to remember is that you can say almost anything about somebody if you can prove that it is all true.
    If you are really intereste here's a link to the Defamation Act 2009 which codifies the law in this area.

    Thanks for this.


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