| If the conduct of the defendants is not an issue in a defamation trial, what on earth is? |
| Now that means that a very fundamental foundation stone to the law of defamation is in fact non-existent. |
| However, there is no special rule precluding liability in all cases of group or class defamation. |
| Such an approach, I hope, may go some modest distance to demythologise the law of defamation. |
| So in one sense there would be very few defamation cases where a defence of qualified privilege could be raised. |
| However, his Fianna Fail cabinet colleagues exacted it as the price for passing his much-needed defamation bill. |
