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Section 135 - Civil Law (Wrongs) Act 2002 - Defence of justification — Zoe

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135 Defence of justification It is a defence to the publication of defamatory matter if the defendant proves that the defamatory imputations carried by the matter of which the plaintiff complains are substantially true.

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