CMN 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: New Media, The Offence, Actual Malice
3 Mar 2016
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Explain the significance of section 91 and 92 for understanding of the regulation of new media? o! The defamatory statement were made because the event in question is the event. Its not the slander that"s the issue it"s a publication. It"s a new media event, they were published in newspapers and broadcasted on tv. They have a wide spread commonly occurring currency. The common law of defamation is not a creature of statute (to denote something that takes its existence by virtue of it being a law) The offence of criminal law will be found on criminal code. The common law of defamation as opposed to criminal code, Tort law is a branch of private law that deals with actions essentially is a tort between private litigants o! In the case of criminal liable it"s a different scenario. An individual has been charged with breaking a criminal code. In this case the crown is prosecuting code.
