Judges would be far better directing their comments to politicians and lawmakers to try and undo the damage they have done in making it exceptionally difficult to sue Facebook or Twitter or any other social media platform. They should be the targets just as much as the various individuals named as defendants.
One of the major problems people have when they are defamed is the fact that the defamation in very many cases ends up on the internet. If a person is defamed in a national newspaper then almost certainly there will be a digital version of that article on the internet. If they are defamed on […]
You defame somebody if you make a false allegation about them and that allegation has been made known to third parties. There are however certain defences open to the person who made the defamatory statements. One of the defences is that of privilege. Privilege can be absolute privilege, which generally refers to comments made in […]
We were recently involved in a high profile defamation action where we were able to achieve a very rapid and satisfactory settlement for journalist John Waters and others in an action against RTE. RTE have been criticised for the handling of this case and one of the criticisms has been that they settled the case […]
In recent blogs I referred to the fact that it is relatively easy these days to seriously attempt to destroy a person’s reputation and get away with it. What you do is you post some utterly untrue and scurrilous remarks on Facebook or on TripAdvisor or on Twitter and if possible you hide your identity. […]
