DEFAMATION AUSTRALIA
May 1st, 2002
BY MATTHEW BRACESYDNEY is the "defamation capital of the English-speaking world" according to a British legal expert working in Australia's largest city. Based on his research, figures show that one writ is served for every 79,000 people in the state of New South Wales; a higher rate than England, (one writ per 121,000 people), and much higher than the United States, where the proportion us one writ per 2.3 million people.The figures have been compiled by the Communications Law Centre, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, as part of a three-year ...
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