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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Crisis of Democratic Accountability: Public Libel Law and the Checking Function of the Press by Dr Randall Stephenson
This book undertakes a comparative study of the public interest and political speech defences in defamation law particularly from the perspective of the misuse of democratic free expression justifications. Specifically it argues that the law and legal approach taken by leading courts and legislatures in the UK Australia New Zealand Canada and the United States—five common law comparators—is undertheorised lacks adequate criteria for determining the correct form of the defence and would benefit from a more precise understanding of ‘democracy’ ‘accountability’ and ‘representation’. It will be of great interest to scholars interested in free speech defamation and public law.