This is possibly a stupid point, and it may reveal my misunderstanding, but as I look at this—I said this during our first Sitting—there are occasions, particularly in the scientific sphere, when the intent is correctly defamatory, where one is saying, “This is wrong”, “This is dishonest” or, “This experiment has been faked”, and the like. Much of the wording of this assumes that if it is harming you, then you have rights, as it were, to stop the harm. However, I can think of lots of examples where the intention is deliberately and properly defamatory.
Defamation Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord May of Oxford
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 15 January 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Defamation Bill.
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