An alternative to defamation for businesses: Injurious Falsehood & Misleading & Deceptive Conduct Defamation and businesses Corporations, and other body corporates have a restriction on standing to sue for defamation, in that, they cannot have more than 10 full time equivalent employees. Likewise, sometimes, establishing serious harm to the requisite threshold can be difficult. For […]
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Protecting brand reputation: Defamation risks for businesses The value of brand reputation in business Brand reputation is an essential and crucial part of any business which sells goods or services. Without a good reputation, a business may be unable to sell its goods or services to enough clients and customers to remain profitable, and thereby […]
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When love turns sour, defamation becomes ripe: A case study of defamation when a relationship goes wrong Occasionally, I published an article which discusses defamation law in the context of a real life defamation case. Today, I am writing about the Victorian County Court case of Wang v Qin [2021] VCC 1906 (the Wang Case). […]
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