Your responsibilities under the Defamation Act

Quoted from KingstonMariner

It’s a tall order proving defamation if you’ve already traduced your own character by forming a redevelopment business partnership with a known fraudster, then introducing him to the council where you were a senior member of cabinet responsible for redevelopment, then considered accepting the same fraudster’s money at a company that you controlled. You’d think that you wouldn’t want to highlight cases where you might have broken conflict of interest principles. Much less give someone the opportunity in a public forum like a court to answer accusations that you had breached public safety regulations by inviting a member of the public to an event from which members of the public were banned.

Only an idiot would want to draw that to the attention of the courts and have your actions scrutinised again.

Of course it might not be ‘Honest’ John bringing a case of defamation. Imagine if you were a person who’d spent his whole career in the legal profession, and were now the director of a high profile local public company, trying to prove defamation when you’d defended doing business with a convicted fraudster on the basis that ‘no individuals were victims only banks or building societies’. Imagine what a laughing stock you’d make of yourself in court.

Imagine what an idiot either of those people would be to try this.