"Horry" wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:26:21 +1100, Trevor Wilson wrote:
>
>> "Phil Allison" wrote in message
>> news:5uvrkpF1jhh2nU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>
>>> "Trevor Wilson"
>>>>
>>>> Ms Wood,
>>>>
>>>> I appreciate that you need to take defamation seriously. Dymocks did
>>>> not
>>>> write the material. Dymocks, by selling the book in question, would not
>>>> be
>>>> defaming anyone.
>>>
>>>
>>> ** This is where you are 100%, dead wrong.
>>>
>>> Defamation occurs when the defamatory material is disseminated to
>>> others -
>>> ie " published ".
>>>
>>> The central issue in defamation is the actual * harm done * to a
>>> person
>>> or organisation, not the mere writing of defamatory material. The harm
>>> is
>>> done by the publication.
>>
>> **Yep and Dymocks is not the publisher.
>
> It would be for the purposes of defamation law.
**There is no defamation action.
>
> I suggest you google the elements required to establish an action for
> defamation (in particular the element of "publication").
>
> P.S.: You're about to be sworn at and accused of autism.
**I'm accustomed to it.
Trevor Wilson
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