The limitation on corporations’ ability to claim damages for defamation is a ‘critical shift’
The case isn’t only about environmental lawyers and activists being slapped by ‘rapacious’ miners with a series of defamation lawsuits, but about the rule of law
Century Property Developments and Riversands Developments have ‘no prospect’ of recovering the damages being claimed, say defendants
The judge ruled that corporations should not be allowed to use the legal system against citizens and activists