Seanad debates
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed)
12:00 pm
Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)
Section 20(5)(b) states: "...to publish that correction and apology in such manner as is reasonable and practicable in the circumstances". Where a defamatory statement is made on the front page of a newspaper, must the apology not be accorded the same prominence as the original article rather than placing it in a corner of page 4, for example? Are these the circumstances to which the subsection refers?
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