Both reputations covered
Personal name and commercial standing, treated as the distinct harms they are.
Defamation claims and defences under the Defamation (Prohibition) Law, for individuals whose name is attacked and for businesses whose commercial reputation is the target. A core practice of the firm, run on both sides.
Defamation is two fights at once: the harm to the person and the harm to what they do. The Defamation (Prohibition) Law protects not only a private name but a person's standing in their office, business, and profession, which is why a single publication can wound an individual and a company together. The firm is highly experienced in defamation on both the personal and the commercial side, and it runs these matters for the party defamed and for the party that published.
The firm fixes early which reputation is actually under attack - the person, the business, or both - because the proof, the damage, and the remedy differ for each. For the defamed, it builds the harm and presses the publication toward removal, correction, and damages; for the publisher, it tests whether the truth-and-public-interest or a good-faith defence genuinely holds. It treats the publication as the central document and reads it word by word, since a defamation case is won on what was actually said and how it would be understood.
Personal name and commercial standing, treated as the distinct harms they are.
The firm prosecutes for the defamed and defends for the publisher, with real experience either way.
The case built on the exact words and how they would be understood, not on outrage.
The firm has acted in significant defamation matters spanning the personal and the commercial: a dispute concerning the reputation of a religious institution, and a defamation matter for a private individual whose personal and business standing was attacked. In each, the case was built on the exact publication, the harm to the specific reputation, and the available defences, and carried toward removal, correction, and damages or, on the defence side, the truth and good-faith defences.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
A publication that could lower a person in others' eyes, expose them to hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or harm them in their office, business, or profession, under the Defamation (Prohibition) Law; harm to commercial and professional standing is covered, not only harm to a private name.
Yes; the law protects standing in business and profession, so a company or a professional can claim for a publication that damages its commercial reputation, alongside or instead of any personal claim.
Principally the defence of truth together with public interest, and the good-faith defences set out in the law; whether one genuinely applies turns on the exact publication and the circumstances, which is what the case is built around.
The law provides for damages in defamation, including a statutory measure that can be awarded without proof of actual loss, with the amount turning on the publication and the circumstances.