Seanad debates
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Defamation Bill 2006: Committee Stage (Resumed)
3:00 pm
David Norris (Independent)
In that case I will send him a few bob in the post. If he nipped this in the bud as provided for in this Bill he would receive nothing. He has been damaged and exposed to ridicule. I read the article, accompanied by a photograph, and laughed like a drain. It cheered up my morning but I do not see why he should not have some recourse. That may have been innocent nonsense but I am using the story as an instance. I hope it is an accurate one, perhaps it is not.
I approach this Bill as an ordinary person, not a lawyer. An ordinary person might well ask why one is cut off from further recourse if one stops something that may gather momentum.
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