“All four jurisdictions in Great Britain and Ireland have been involved with reforming their law of defamation over the last decade. The Republic of Ireland went first with the Defamation Act 2009, followed by England with a namesake statute in 2013. The Northern Ireland Law Commission published its Consultation Paper on the subject in 2014 and the Scottish Law Commission is scheduled to release its own Discussion Paper on 22 March 2016. In this public lecture, Dr Eric Descheemaeker will examine selected provisions of the Irish Defamation Act against the wider background of defamation reform in the British Isles …” (more, registration)
First posted 2016-03-21 17:18:59
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