Following hot on the heels of the Jeremy Clarkson/Jemima Khan “Twittergate”, Andrew Marr’s epiphany and Mosley’s Strasbourg judgment, privacy has never been at a greater point of hysteria than Friday 20 May 2011. Today, there is simply nothing more newsworthy. Continue reading
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Day: 20 May 2011
In German law, defamation is primarily seen as a crime under §§185 ff of the Criminal Code, and therefore also as a tort under § 823(2) of the Civil Code. There has never been an objection to individual members of a group suing for defamation of that group (See eg BVerfGE 93, 266 (the ‘soldiers are murderers’ case) (translation R Youngs). Continue reading
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