PPRUNE change of Privacy Policy

[gordonfvckingramsay]

If you speak the truth, however ugly, it is not libel or slander as I see it under Australian law.


Uniform legislation was passed in Australiain 2005 severely restricting the right of corporations to sue for defamation(see, e.g., Defamation Act 2005 (Vic), s 9). The only corporationsexcluded from the general ban are those not for profit or those with less than 10 employees and notaffiliated with another company. Corporations may, however, still sue for thetort of injurious falsehood, where the burden of proof is greater than for meredefamation, because the plaintiff must show that the defamation was made withmalice and resulted in economic loss.

The 2005 reforms also established across allAustralian states the availability of truth as an unqualified defense;previously a number of states only allowed a defense of truth with thecondition that a public benefit existed.

Since the introduction ofthe uniform defamation laws in 2005 the distinction between slander and libelhas been abolished.