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DESCRIPTION:The Paul-André   Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law
  is inaugurating its new series of Civil Law Workshops\, under the theme «
  Les apparences en droit civil »\, with a talk by Eric Descheemaeker (bio)
  (University of Edinburgh).  Abstract  This paper provides a comparative o
 verview of two related\, but analytically distinct\, issues in the law of 
 defamation.The first is whether the true character of a defamatory stateme
 nt relieves the defendant from liability. On this issue\, the civilian and
  common-law traditions have historically settled on two markedly different
  stances\, the latter accepting the sufficiency of truth simpliciter while
  the former never did. Some of the reasons for this distinction are explor
 ed. Different is the issue of truthfulness\, in the sense of belief in tru
 th. Does it\, and should it matter\, that a defendant believed that what t
 hey said was true albeit (prima facie) defamatory? Should we distinguish o
 n the basis of the ‘quality’ of the belief?  This paper argues that reason
 able truthfulness ought to be recognised as a defence in the law of defama
 tion. De lege lata\, the law has never come up with such a general princip
 le\, but observation suggests that it has in fact been beating about the b
 ush for a long time\, using other analytical tools. Besides\, a number of 
 recent developments internationally can be understood as attempts to get c
 loser to the above position.  About the Civil Law Workshops  For well over
  a decade now\, the Paul-André   Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparativ
 e Law's “Civil Law Workshop”   series has been a showcase for new ideas re
 lating to aspects of fundamental private law in the civilian tradition.  T
 his activity was accredited for 1.5 hour of CLE by the Barreau du Québec (
 no. 10058273).
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LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Truth and Truthfulness in the Law of Defamation
URL:/law/channels/event/truth-and-truthfulness-law-def
 amation-218201
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