Law of tort about Defamation .

1. Welcome !

2. Topic
Criminal and Tortious Liability for
Defamation Under Domestic and English
Law: Defences and Exceptions
Sayed Hasan Khan Pathan.
ID- 17421111
Department of Law.
(BUP)

3. Introduction
 Defamation is a harm to anyone's personal
reputation with a defamatory speech or any
negative manifesto about a particular which
harm either. Liability for defamation can be
recognised by both Tort and criminal law.
 As the title of this paper says it all here it
will be discussed about the formation for
understanding the defamation and both the
tortious and criminal liabilities for
defamation in the eye of our domestic law
as well as the English law.

4. Definition .
 Defamation occurs when someone
publishes any words or matters
containing an untrue imputation against
the reputation of any legal person.
 A person who defames another may be
called a "defamer", "libeller", "slanderer".

5. Its Elements.
 DEFAMATORY LANGUAGE
 FALSE STATEMENTS
 STATEMENT REFERS TO PLAINTIFF
 PUBLICATION

6. Liability of Defamation under
Domestic Law
 Tortious Liability.
 Criminal Liability.

7. Liability of Defamation Under
English Law
 Slander
 Libel

8. Exceptions
 Imputation of truth which public good
requires to be made or published.
 Public conduct of public servants.
 Conduct of any person touching any
public question.
 Merits of case decided in Court or
conduct of witnesses and others
concerned.

9. Conclusion
 To conclude, quotation of renowned author
William Shakespeare is the best choice.
The quotation sums up defamation and its
requisite perception. In his famous work
‘Othello’ 16 he has written that “He that
filches from me my good name, Robs
me of that, which not enriches him, and
makes me poor indeed.” So, defamation
shall be looked at with different viewpoint,
different attitude and with differentiable
skill to find meanings of words.

10. Have A Nice Day
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