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) can
not 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.
