New law to protect bloggers from defamatory comments on their sites

Reblogged from David Hencke:


The government has just tabled draft regulations under the new Defamation Act to protect English and Welsh bloggers from being sued if people put up unwanted libellous comments on their websites.

I am indebted to Rupert Jones,a Birmingham barrister who specialises, among other things, in media law for drawing my attention to draft regulations which have been tabled by the Ministry of Justice.


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Published on October 19, 2013 11:02
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