29 Sep 2021

Media liability for defamatory third party comments online

From Nine To Noon, 11:50 am on 29 September 2021

Defamation law expert Ursula Cheer looks at an Australian High Court ruling that found media are liable for comments people post on their social media pages and contrasts it with a similar Court of Appeal case here. 

Ursula Cheer is a professor of Law at the University of Canterbury

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