Plans to reform defamation laws do not go far enough, ISME says

, the small and medium employers representative group.

It was reacting to reports that the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee will bring proposals to Cabinet next week for defamation law reform set out in a report compiled following a review of the Defamation Act.The report recommends the abolition of juries in High Court defamation cases, and proposes that judges decide whether or not there was defamation and on any redress.

ISME welcomed the anti-SLAPP proposals, saying it regularly faces vexatious lawsuits as a result of its lobbying activity, but said it is “very concerned” about “three key omissions” from the reform proposals. The fact there “appears to be no general requirement to prove harm” is another “very serious” omission because a defamation claim requires the defendant to prove themselves innocent, it said.

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