'Use media council, ombudsman law as avenues to address defamation'
A Bar Council committee member today suggested the upcoming Media Council and the planned Ombudsman Bill as alternative avenues for ordinary citizens to take up their defamation cases.
Speaking at a forum in Kuala Lumpur, Bar Council's Civil Law and Law Reform Committee co-chairperson M Ramachelvam, said he agreed with the notion that the defamation law is a rich man's tort...
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