Sunday, June 13, 2010

Help Needed

Hi everyone,

If you are a law student or someone who knows the law well enough... Please tell me if telling someone "Please not be irresponsible" through the exchange of emails is enough to constitute as a defamatory remark?

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Toodles.

3 comments:

Teh Tarik Drinker said...

I don't think so. Under Malaysian Law on defamation, a defamatory remark must be seen as a statement made with the intent by the person to defame the other, as well as your actions must be deemed by a reasonable person as defamatory.

A normal statement of telling a person to be responsible does not amount to defamation.

Beth said...

I know we talked about this earlier but I don't think a statement is defamatory if it's true. "Defamation" is a false accusation ...

Vil. said...

@Teh Tarik Drinker: I thought so. Thanks! A company is trying to accuse me of defaming them just because I told them not to be so irresponsible after delaying my payment for 2 weeks.

@Beth: Yeah, I don't think calling them irresponsible is a false accusation in anyway.