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Government鈥檚 Response to the Report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill

On 15 March 2011 the Government published its draft Defamation Bill for public consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny in Parliament.

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Ministry of Justice
Published
29 February 2012
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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On 15 March 2011 the Government published its draft Defamation Bill for public consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny in Parliament. This reflected the Coalition commitment to review the law of libel to protect free speech.

皇冠体育app public consultation closed in June and a comprehensive summary of the responses received was published on 24 November 2011.聽 皇冠体育app Parliamentary Joint Committee which gave pre-legislative scrutiny to the draft Bill published its report on 19 October. 皇冠体育app report welcomed the Government鈥檚 intention to reform the law and made a series of important recommendations.

This response to the Committee focuses on its recommendations on all the relevant issues and also indicates our conclusions on certain points of detail which were raised in our public consultation but not addressed specifically in the Committee鈥檚 report.

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Published 29 February 2012

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