{"id":22916,"date":"2017-12-22T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T10:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/?p=22916"},"modified":"2019-04-17T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:16:04","slug":"defamation-reform-could-lead-to-the-death-of-defamation-litigation-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/defamation-reform-could-lead-to-the-death-of-defamation-litigation-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Defamation reform could \u2018lead to the death of defamation litigation in Scotland\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A prominent Scottish defamation lawyer has warned that proposals to align Scotland\u2019s defamation laws with England and Wales could \u201clead to the death of defamation litigation in Scotland\u201d.<\/p>\n

Campbell Deane<\/strong>, partner at Bannatyne Kirkwood Frame & Co<\/strong> (BKF), told The Herald<\/em> that some of the proposals in the Scottish Law Commission\u2019s<\/strong> draft defamation bill<\/a> \u201cmake perfect sense\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, he said the introduction of a \u2018serious harm\u2019 test \u2013 already in place in England and Wales \u2013 would put Scotland at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n

Mr Deane said: \u201cTo harmonise the jurisdictions and bring into play that we have exactly the same test as England, which has now had four years of running those arguments, we are now four years behind them.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from saying come here because we are cheap as chips, there\u2019s now no argument to come to Scotland.<\/p>\n

\u201cEngland has conditional fee arrangements and higher awards so it would be bordering on professional negligence if a client comes in and says where should I sue and you don\u2019t say go to England.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will lead to the death of defamation litigation in Scotland. It will just die.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duncan Hamilton, advocate at Arnot Manderson Advocates<\/strong>, added: \u201cI don\u2019t see how having a pretty much off-the-shelf adoption of what is in place south of the Border is necessarily something that\u2019s going to lead to the development of Scots law or greater economic development.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe serious-harm test was introduced in England because there were too many frivolous defamation cases \u2013 as a means of sifting out the cases they put in the serious-harm test.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Scotland we have exactly the opposite problem \u2013 we have too few cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems almost the reverse of what devolution was designed to achieve: Scottish solutions to Scottish problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are aspects that the commission and the Government in due course will want to assess in terms of whether it\u2019s right for Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n

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