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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-04-12/40/
12 Apr 1961 -
Defamation Bill, 1961—First Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/66/
26 Jul 1961 -
Defamation Bill, 1961—Committee Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/68/
26 Jul 1961 -
Defamation Bill, 1961—Committee Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-08-02/44/
2 Aug 1961 -
Defamation Bill, 1961 — Report and Final Stages.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1961-08-09/7/
9 Aug 1961 -
Defamation Bill, 1961—Second and Subsequent Stages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-05-03/36/
3 May 1961 -
. - Defamation Bill, 1961—Second Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2006-12-06/4/
6 Dec 2006 -
Bill entitled an Act to revise in part the Law of Defamation; to repeal the Defamation Act 1961; and
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-04-12/40/
12 Apr 1961 -
Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to consolidate with amendments certain enactments relating...to the law of defamation—(Minister for Justice).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/68/
26 Jul 1961 -
I would think, in any event, that it would be advisable to have it in this Defamation Bill....There is a special clause in the Civil Liability Bill dealing with libel and slander....It would be much better to have it in the Defamation Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/66/
26 Jul 1961 -
McGilligan This Act is copied from the British Defamation Act, 1952....The English Defamation Act, 1952 is the foundation of this Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/66/
26 Jul 1961 -
Parliamentary Secretary has arrived, may I say how appropriate it is that Fianna Fáil should be dealing with a Defamation...Bill because they are past masters in relation to it?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/68/
26 Jul 1961 -
Sweetman When you are impinging on so much there, is it not better to have it all related to defamation...Apart from that, subsections (4) and (5) of Section 11 of the Civil Liability Bill do not provide for
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/68/
26 Jul 1961 -
Sweetman This Section 28 is I think in the 1952 British Bill....A thing I do not understand at all is what is intended to be the difference in the law of defamation...It seems to me that in relation to the law of defamation the appropriate way, for example, of putting...Parliamentary Secretary is taking it out here purely because he prefers to have it in the Civil Liability Bill...have a second look at Section 27 in the light of the contribution provisions of the Civil Liability Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/68/
26 Jul 1961 -
Are we to look at the Defamation Bill, which is supposed to be a consolidated measure, and find that...in fact it is not, and that we have to go to the Civil Liability Bill and if we find that the situation...I think it would be better to leave it in this Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/66/
26 Jul 1961 -
Sweetman As well as giving privileges, the Bill is intended to be a consolidating measure in relation...to the law of defamation.
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Debate: Special Committee Registration Of Business Names Bill, 1963
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/special_committee_registration_of_business_names_bill_1963/1963-07-12/17/
12 Jul 1963 -
It was consolidated into the Defamation Act 1961, which requires them to register in accordance with...When the Department of Justice saw this new Bill coming along, they said there was no point in retaining...the provision in question in the Defamation Act....It is simply a registration requirement and has nothing to do with defamation....The provisions of the Defamation Act relating to defamation are quite unaltered.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/68/
26 Jul 1961 -
Sweetman Is it not better to have all the law in relation to defamation in the one place?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/66/
26 Jul 1961 -
McGilligan The ordinary rule with regard to defamation is no more costs than damages.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1996-06-05/3/
5 Jun 1996 -
Mulcahy Will the Leader ask the Taoiseach or the Minister for Justice when the proposed legislation on defamation...the Minister for Justice gave a commitment to the other House before voting down a Private Members' Bill...on defamation that a new Bill would be brought forward....The Leader will be aware the National Newspapers of Ireland called for the reform of the law on defamation...which dates back to 1961.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1961-07-26/66/
26 Jul 1961 -
The object of the amendment is to extend the privileges of the Bill to newspapers printed and published...The recent English and Northern Ireland Defamation Acts give statutory privilege only to papers printed
