Credit: Getty Images. This month’s Legal Advisor reviews a claim for defamation brought by a DNP against a physician. This case shows a lack of basic respect that health care practitioners should have ...

Defamation is the act of communicating false statements about a person that injures their reputation. Legal protections for a person’s reputation go back to common law and were well developed over the ...

This is the first in a series of three articles exploring the intersection of defamation claims and internet-based communication. This article sets the groundwork by explaining the fundamental types ...

Nunes and his family's farm can't sufficiently show damages, so the court doesn't have to reach any of the other elements of defamation. From Nunes v. Lizza, decided yesterday by Eighth Circuit Chief ...

This piece is the second in a series on Australia’s defamation laws. You can read the first article here. Over recent years, forces like the #MeToo movement have shone a light on how Australia’s ...