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• Bitter Twe Eet Laws ; Top Tory Lord Mcalpine's Threat to Sue Anyone Linking Him with the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal On Twitter Left Hundreds - Including the Speaker's Wife Sally Bercow - Fearing Legal Action. But It Also Brought the Issue of How Social Media Can Be Policed Into the Spotlight, As Paul Rowland Reports

YOU'VE only been on Twitter a couple of weeks. Your followers have barely even ticked into double figures. So surely no-one will notice if you accuse a high-profile public figure of being a sexual deviant? Wrong. Lord McAlpine's lawyers warned this week they had been collecting names and Twitter details of anyone who had falsely accused him of involvement in the Bryn Estyn scandal.

...? Because it's not just libel and defamation where the problems lie. What social media tools ha... or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or "Cause any such message or matter to be so. "...Libel The legal definition of libel is a published (including broadcast) fals...

• Wales on Sunday
• November 18, 2012

• Water Act 2003

... WRA (ecclesiastical property) , in the definition of “the relevant land” in subsection (8) , in ... the purposes of the law relating to defamation, absolute privilege attaches to any notice under s... Council such directions of a general character as appear to the Secretary of State to be requisit...

• Housing Act 1996

...57 Definitions relating to industrial and provident societies. (1... from adversely affecting the amenity or character of the area in which they are situated. (2) Specia...9 For the purposes of the law of defamation absolute privilege attaches to—. (a) any communi...

• Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd, Court of Appeal - Queen's Bench Division, June 16, 2010, [2010] EWHC 1414 (QB)

... placed on the same level as attacks on character and are treated as actionable wrongs''. ii) The bu...``To be actionable [in defamation], words must impute to the claimant some quality w... be directed by the Judge as to the definition of the word defamatory. If the jury do not find th...

• Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010

...(ii) probity and character,. (iii) family, business or other associations (so... addition, elaboration or exception) a definition in subsection (6). (4) Regulations under subsectio...(2) For the purposes of the law on defamation, the publication is privileged. (3) But subsection...

• The Week:1-7 July

DAVID Beckham resigned as England football captain on Sunday after his team went out of the World Cup, beaten by Portugal in a penalty shoot-out. Thunder and lightning lashed Scotland, while sun- worshippers south of the Border enjoyed temperatures of 32C. At least 41 people died on Monday when an underground train crashed in Valencia, Spain. Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan on Saturday were named as L-Cpl Jabrom Hashmi and Cpl Peter Thorpe. The First Minister, Jack McConnell, joined his Welsh counterpart, Rhodri Morgan, in launching a joint campaign to gain Fair Trade status for both nations. Andy Murray's run at Wimbledon came to an end when he lost his fourth-round match in straight sets to Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.

... Party MSP Tommy Sheridan began his defamation action against the News of the World at the Court ... named as the actress who will play new character Martha Jones, replacing Rose Tyler, played by Bill... launches the world's first high definition digital versatile disk (HD DVD) recorder. The Scot...

• The Scotsman
• July 08, 2006

• Berkoff v Burchill & Anor, Court of Appeal - Civil Division, July 02, 1996, [1996] EWCA Civ 564,[1996] 4 All ER 1008

..." and as to the nature of an action for defamation. . The facts can be stated quite shortly. The pl... 1994, Miss Burchill described a character in the film called "the Creature". She wrote:. "...(2) Definitions of "defamatory". (3) Additional Guidance from deci...

• Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

...(b) in the definition of “contract of employment” after “contract ... where facilities are provided, the character of facilities and the way they are equipped;. (b) ...216 Law of defamation. (1) For the purposes of the law of defamation the...

• Reynolds v. Times Newspapers Limited and Others, (1999)

...Defamation and truth. The defence of qualified privilege must... damages in respect of an injury to a character which he does not or ought not to possess'. Truth... difficulty as to these cases is one of definition, not one of principle. (back to. preceding text). ...

• House of Lords

• Coroners and Justice Act 2009

... circumstances of an extremely grave character, and. (b) caused D to have a justifiable sense of ...(2) In subsection (1) (definitions) , omit paragraph (b) (child witnesses in need of ...64) ,. (vi) Defamation Act 1952 (c. 66) ,. (vii) Theatres Act 1968 (c. 54...