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This was substantially true.
"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government," Washington had said.
Under the bill, a statement is regarded as defamatory if it "has caused or is likely to cause serious harm to the reputation" of a person or a company, but any claim for damages will fail if it can be shown, for example, that the defamatory statement is "substantially true".
Many of the complaints are valid and much of what is said is substantially true.
An employee will be protected if he "makes a disclosure in good faith" to one of these people, and "reasonably believes that the relevant failure...is a matter in respect of which the person is prescribed and the information is substantially true".
But he lost the case after the court decided her accusations were substantially true.
But, crucially, they were also found to be substantially true – meaning the publisher could rely on the defence of truth.
Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, had denied libel and said its story was substantially true and fair comment.
In his judgment Mr Justice Gray decided that the defamatory remarks made against him in the book were substantially true.
Mr Bower denied libel and said what he wrote in Conrad And Lady Black: Dancing On The Edge was substantially true and was not, in any event, defamatory.
Justice Werner rejected the defendants' argument that the brochure was substantially true, and that the woman's signing the waiver removed their liability.
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