Defamation

Defamation is the publication to a third party of a statement about you which has caused or is likely to cause serious harm to your reputation. The defamatory publication will either be a libel, a defamatory publication which is permanent, or a slander which relates to more transient publications, principally spoken words or even physical gestures.

There has been a surge in the incidence of internet defamation with businesses increasingly using social media as a mainstream marketing channel. The use of these medium’s does not give others a free pass to publish defamatory material or make false statements without consequence. In addition to compensation, a plaintiff can seek to have a false statement retracted or a public apology issued.

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