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		<title>Sleepwalking into an obscene damages award</title>
		<link>http://www.cearta.ie/2010/11/sleepwalking-into-an-obscene-damages-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obscene. Once I had caught my breath, and collected my composure, this was my immediate reaction to learning that a high court jury had awarded 10 million euro in libel damages, made up of €9m in compensatory damages and €1m in aggravated damages. According to RTÉ:
A Co Louth businessman who took a libel action against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble in the Blog O’Sphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all began innocently enough: just before Christmas, Sunday Times journalist John Burns wrote a piece lamenting the shortcomings of blogging in Ireland. Leading bloggers naturally begged to differ. A month later, the spat was picked up by Trevor Butterworth writing on Forbes.com, who noted that &#8220;it&#8217;s hard to think of a free country more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defamation, opinion, and the presumption of innocence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer&#8221;
William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England (vol 4) 358

 With very little coverage (Day 1: Irish Times here and here &#124; RTÉ; Day 2: Irish Times), a case which had the capacity to make a fundamental change to Irish defamation law was decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, does Irish law now recognise a journalist source privilege?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in my previous post, the Supreme Court in Mahon Tribunal v Keena [2009] IESC 64 (31 July 2009) (also here (pdf)) allowed the appeal against the decision of the High Court in Mahon v Keena [2007] IEHC 348 (23 October 2007). Fennelly J delivered the judgment of the Court, in which Murray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pleading defamation defences</title>
		<link>http://www.cearta.ie/2009/07/pleading-defamation-defences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, I discussed newspaper reports of a recent High Court case in which Quinn Insurance Group lost a High Court bid to strike out parts of the Sunday Tribune’s defence to forthcoming libel proceedings taken against it by the insurance company; and I promised to return to the case as soon as [...]]]></description>
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