Many of the recommendations put forward by the Law Reform Commission in its Report on the Civil Law of Defamation were endorsed by the advisory group. Among those were the recommendations touching upon the making of an apology, court lodgements and the rationalisation of the defences of absolute and qualified privilege. It is a mark of the excellence of the work done by the Law Reform Commission that the report it prepared on this topic remains so influential and that so much of it has been adopted by all involved, from whatever perspective they have approached this topic of reform.