Defamation isan offence under both the civil and criminal law. ... The Indian Penal Code punishes the offence with a simple imprisonment up to two years, or with fine, or both. Civil defamation. The statements made, need to be false and it must be made without the consent of the alleged...
(c), guidance as to the meaning of misconduct or other expression used in bye-law 8 and the relevance for disciplinary purposes of a person subject to bye-law 8 being found guilty of a criminal offence or having any matter found against him in any civil proceedings or being subject to ...
Transmitting material that encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offence or results in civil liability or otherwise breaches any relevant laws, regulations or code of practice. Gaining unauthorized access to computer systems that you have no authorized access to. Interfering with any other person...
More than a year after the new criminal offence against Holocaust denialism was created, The Canadian Press sought data from the federal government and several provinces to find out how often it has been used. The federal Justice Department “is not aware of any charges...
The global anti-corruption landscape is constantly evolving. Many countries have widened the scope of their anti-corruption laws and introduced more severe penalties, widened the definition of public officials to include those working in public international organisations and introduced the new offence of...
I’ve been a hard-liner on this issue, insisting that colleges and universities should hew strictly to the First Amendment as interpreted by the courts, which of course means that you can pretty much say what you want unless it constitutes defamation, instigates immediate and predictable violent...
More than a year after the new criminal offence against Holocaust denialism was created, The Canadian Press sought data from the federal government and several provinces to find out how often it has been used. The federal Justice Department “is not aware of any char...
The fact that even right-wing organs of opinion in Israel, like the Jerusalem Post, staunch Jewish institutional defenders of Israel and its government, like the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and NGO Monitor and a politically hawkish diaspora Jewish periodical, like the UK...
contain profanity or other language likely to cause offence; break the law or condone or encourage unlawful activity (including, without limitation, breach of any intellectual property right, defamation and contempt of court); are seen to impersonate or falsely claim to be, someone else or ...
Never mind that this 1896 criminal case hadneverbeen cited in a civil patent case in history! Never mind that the Federal Circuit didn’t even support its own evidence precedents for the fabricated claim. Never mind that all the judges in the case held volumes of Facebook financial interests...