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'What defences does the law provide for journalists facing defamation cases?'
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'What defences does the law provide for journalists facing defamation cases?' The law of defamation exists to protect both the moral and professional reputation of the individual from unjustified attacks. The law tries to strike a balance between freedom of speech and a free press with the protection of an individual's reputation. Should journalists face defamation cases there are defences available. Justification is one of these defences, to use this defence the journalist must prove that what they have written is substantially true. Before the defamation act of 1952 was passed, to succeed with a defence of justification you had to prove the exact truth of every defamatory statement made in the article in question. But now under section 5 of the act, the law states that the defence will not fail merely because the article contains some minor inaccuracies. However difficulties still arise as it is not the task...
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