Sentence examples for speech defence from inspiring English sources

Facebook rejects all claims, and has made a motion to have the case dismissed using a free speech defence.

It is troubling that this legislation does not provide the opportunity for the media to mount a freedom of speech defence".

While he was not passing judgement on the nature of the charges, he said "if this woman was in the US or Canada for example she would probably be able to avail of herself a freedom of speech defence and certainly some sort of whistleblower protection".

"You may wish to ask yourself the question, whether in truth he was brave to give evidence in this trial?" In his closing speech, defence lawyer George Carter-Stephenson QC said the prosecution case was based on "speculation".

In his closing speech, defence barrister Dermot Hughes described the guest house's finances as a "shambles" and suggested it was possible Mrs Turner's claim she was acting on behalf of its owner, David Andrews, was the truth.

In his closing speech, defence counsel said that the key to the case was whether the Orsborne brothers intended to deprive the owners permanently of their vessel.

That is because the law requires the defendant to prove that what he said is true, fair or legally privileged; it does not offer the strong free-speech defence that America's first amendment provides.

His Democrat political instincts - honed when working for Johnson - always placed him in a free-speech defence, when many Americans began to believe, as one advocate put it, that Hollywood's violence and vulgarities had become a matter of public health.

He then reads a speech in defence of domestic workers.

I well remember her passionate speech in defence of libraries at a conference a few years ago.

It will make unstable states more unstable, poor nations poorer, inequality more pronounced, and conflict more likely," Huhne is expected to say in a speech to defence experts.