Jamaican Senate passes bill to abolish criminal defamation
The Jamaican Senate on Friday unanimously passed a bill that would make the island nation the first in the Caribbean to abolish all forms of criminal defamation. The bill (Defamation Act 2013) would replace both the Libel and Slander Act (1851) and the Defamation Act (1961), which regulate criminal and civil defamation, respectively. Currently, those […]
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