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Defamation: sometimes it IS a laughing matter
By Steven | December 16, 2008
Justice Tugendhart has thrown out Elton John’s defamation case against the Guardian for publishing a spoof diary entry. The judge said it was “obviously a form of teasing” and no reasonable reader would take defamatory meanings from it.
Chalk one up on the free speech side of the complete mess that is the sector of defamation law dealing with humour and satire.
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