Legal News (Defamation)

On 28 March, the Department of Justice published the draft General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill. The proposed Bill gives effect to recommendations of the Report of the Review of the Defamation Act 2009, published last year by the Minister for Justice.

The Annual Report for 2021 of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman has recently been released.

In June 2021, the Victorian Supreme Court of Appeal upheld an important decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria concerning the law of defamation.