Category: Defamation

• 3 Jan 2023

  Defamation of Deceased – Analysing the sustainability of action from Criminal and Civil Law Perspective (Part II)

  

  This is the second part of the bi-partite article series. The first part can be found here. This part focuses on the situation when the plaintiff dies in a civil action for defamation. It also provides for the remedies that are available to the Legal Representatives of the Deceased Plaintiff. Civil Suit for Defamation-Plaintiff died;…
• 30 Dec 2022

  Defamation of Deceased – Analysing the sustainability of action from Criminal and Civil Law Perspective (Part I)

  

  This is the first part of a bi-partite article series. Introduction In India, defamation is both a criminal as well as civil wrong. So, the person defamed has been given the liberty to bring either civil or criminal action or both. In civil cases, the person defamed can bring a civil suit for defamation and…