hatred, contempt or ridicule, or likely to damage the person in his or her profession or trade by injury to his or her reputation, and it is immaterial whether at the time of the publication of the defamatory matter the person concerning whom the matter is published is living or dead”. Section 102 of the Act defines “publication” as follows: “(1) A person publishes a defamatory matter if he or she causes the print, writing, painting, effigy or other means by which the defamatory matter is conveyed to be dealt with, either by exhibition, reading, recitation, description, delivery or otherwise, so that the defamatory meaning thereof become to either the person defamed or any other person. (2) It is not necessary for defamation that a defamatory meaning should be directly or completely expressed, and it suffices if such meaning and its application to the person alleged to be defamed can be collected either from the alleged defamation itself or from any extrinsic circumstances, or partly by the one and other means.” Section 103 of the Act provides explains publication of a defamatory matter thus: “103. Any publication of defamatory matter concerning a person is unlawful within the meaning of this part, unless – The matter is true and it was for the public benefit that it should be published; or It is privileged on one of the grounds set out in this part.”
hatred, contempt or ridicule, or likely to damage the person in his or her profession or trade by injury to his or her reputation, and it is immaterial whether at the time of the publication of the defamatory matter the person concerning whom the matter is published is living or dead”. Section 102 of the Act defines “publication” as follows: “(1) A person publishes a defamatory matter if he or she causes the print, writing, painting, effigy or other means by which the defamatory matter is conveyed to be dealt with, either by exhibition, reading, recitation, description, delivery or otherwise, so that the defamatory meaning thereof become to either the person defamed or any other person. (2) It is not necessary for defamation that a defamatory meaning should be directly or completely expressed, and it suffices if such meaning and its application to the person alleged to be defamed can be collected either from the alleged defamation itself or from any extrinsic circumstances, or partly by the one and other means.” Section 103 of the Act provides explains publication of a defamatory matter thus: “103. Any publication of defamatory matter concerning a person is unlawful within the meaning of this part, unless – The matter is true and it was for the public benefit that it should be published; or It is privileged on one of the grounds set out in this part.”