DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 10
No cause of action for defamation of, or against, deceased persons
DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 10
No cause of action for defamation of, or against, deceased persons
10 No cause of action for defamation of, or against, deceased persons
(1) A person (including a personal representative of a deceased person) cannot
assert, continue or enforce a cause of action for defamation in relation to--
(a) the publication of defamatory matter about a deceased person (whether
published before or after his or her death), or
(b) the publication of
defamatory matter by a person who has died since publishing the matter.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not prevent a court, if it considers it in the interests
of justice to do so, from determining the question of costs for proceedings
discontinued because of the subsection.