Risk as injury: an alternative interpretation of the South African law of defamation

This thesis presents an alternative interpretation of the rules constituting the South African law of defamation. Defamation is typically understood to be a wrong in which the defendant has caused the plaintiff reputational harm. It is argued that it is more justifiable to view the wrong as a wrong...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jurgens, Francois
Other Authors: Fagan, Anton
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Law 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30813