0 damaging the reputation of a person or group by saying or writing bad things about them that are not true: --
1 likely to harm someone's reputation: --
She said the story was "completely untrue and highly defamatory."
defamatory remarks/statements/allegations
Indeed, not all of those who publish defamatory statements would be necessarily regarded as any one of those, using everyday language.
If the newspapers were capable of exercising restraint which protected them effectively from publishing these defamatory statements, why should they not go on doing so?
Sometimes of course the report will be defamatory.
What is the position to be if the report is defamatory?
What protection would there be against defamatory statements made here?
Any statement in certain circumstances can be defamatory and no one can advise with any certainty on this.
Reverting to my own sphere of practice, it is often asked of me and my fellow defamation specialists how one defines what is defamatory.
It could not go on so long as it contained the defamatory matter of which the person defamed complained.
