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dls wrote:Find a use of defame which isn't derived from its legal meaning.
Hairyloon wrote:I suggest that is a guideline rather than a term of use.
I can't see that it matters as long as they are not confused.
atticus wrote:Defamation existed as a common law tort long before any legislation on the subject.
Rhodri Philipps, the fourth Viscount St Davids, was convicted on Tuesday of two counts of sending malicious communications. He wrote on Facebook that he would put up “£5,000 for the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over this bloody troublesome first-generation immigrant”, soon after she won her high court case.
The judge told Philipps he had directed “extreme racial abuse” towards Miller and caused her distress. Sitting at Westminster magistrates court on Thursday, senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot said Philipps had attempted to justify his actions by claiming that public figures were fair game.
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