To Establish the Defence of 'Qualified Privilege' to the Tort

question 4

Multiple Choice

To establish the defence of 'qualified privilege' to the tort of defamation, the defendant must prove:

• A)The statement was not motivated by malice and the defendant had a duty to make the statement to a person who had a corresponding duty to receive it.
• B)The statement was made during parliament or judicial proceedings.
• C)The defamatory statement had one or more other meanings that were substantially true and the defamatory meaning did not harm the reputation of the plaintiff because of the substantial truth of the other meanings.
• D)The defamatory statement was substantially true.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of numerical figures, from sample statistics, judged to potentially include the value of an unknown population attributive.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps to determine the significance of results obtained in hypothesis testing, indicating the probability of observing the results if the null hypothesis were true.

P-value

The probability of observing a statistic at least as extreme as the one observed, under the assumption the null hypothesis is true.

P-value

A statistical measure that helps researchers determine the significance of their experimental results, indicating the probability of observing the results by chance.