Free Speech V Reputation: Public Interest Defence in American and English Law of Defamation

ISBN-13: 9781906704322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 110 str.

Jideofor Adibe

Opis

In this study we look at how free speech interests are balanced against the need to protect reputation in American and English defamation laws. We studied cases from both countries to see how this tension is resolved. We pay special attention to 'public interest' defence since the media often justifies its attack on reputation on 'public interest', even when it is substituting its own interest for this 'public interest'.