If compensation of that nature was to be claimed, it could only be recovered in a defamation action.

He denied the allegations and has issued a defamation action.

They commenced their defamation action to which the defendants pleaded justification and fair comment.

The court rejected the good faith standard due to the danger of bringing suit simply to reveal identity without any intention of pursuing the defamation action to a final decision.

As defamation actions went, he added, the allegation was relatively trivial.

The evidence in the defamation case has never been tested before a judge.

The charity successfully brought a defamation case against the couple.

But he can only use the cash to defend himself in a separate defamation case.

She was a witness in the defamation case.

An early defamation case involving a government minister, although a loss, made his reputation.

Most never get that far, because nervous publications settle beforehand, while the spectre of defamation law has a chilling effect on what gets published in the first place.

Slipping an amendment into another bill, threatening in the process the good work done in reforming defamation law, was sneaky and sinister.

Recent cases have addressed defamation law and the internet.

Changes made to the defamation laws last year enable websites to be forced to provide the details of people writing potentially libellous comments.

First, presumably, because of the defamation laws, and second because they, too, are fans.

His answers about a defamation lawsuit early in his career, the names and status of his household staff and his medical history were incomplete, they said.

Heaps had refused the reimbursement for the defamation lawsuit but still accepted the reimbursement for the compliance audit action.

In a defamation lawsuit he was charged with breaking his distribution contract and disclosing proprietary information.

However, this court concluded that the identity of anonymous posters in defamation lawsuits can be revealed only if the lawsuit would survive a motion to dismiss.

Failure to comply with this proposed law would result in fines and possible defamation lawsuits against the operators of the website.