Closing Address
Plaintiff Council
Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the jury. My client has had his rights violated, and it is this courts job to see that it is to be set right. Compensation must be payed. What this reviewer has done to my clients is a total breach of his rights, rights that protect his reputation in the community. These hurtful, fabrications were published in order to ruin my client.
The law of defamation has a difficult task. It draws the line between the rights of an individual, and that of the community. In this particular case it is ridiculous to believe that this restaurant reviewer had the right to make such a slanderous remark, and then publish it.
Under the Defamation Act or 1889 this is the correct and full meaning of this law. Any person who, by spoken words or audible sounds, or by words intended to be read either by sight or touch, or by signs, signals, gestures, or visible representations, publishes and defamatory imputation concerning any person is said to defame that person.
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