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Categories of qualified privilege

Classes of statements which constitute privileged occasion

Condition to be satisfied for the defence of qualified privilege to avail a defendant in an action for defamation

Distinction between the defences of qualified privilege and justification

How the defence of qualified privilege can be destroyed/neutralised

How to neutralise the defence of qualified privilege

Nature of malice that would defeat the defence of qualified privilege

On whom lies the burden of proving qualified privilege

Rules governing qualified privilege

Scope of qualified privilege

The element of reciprocity of interest in the law of qualified privilege

The essential element of qualified privilege

The factors that the court should consider before upholding a defence of qualified privilege

The law on qualified privilege

The need for a claimant to deliver a reply depicting malice in defeating the defence of qualified privilege

The principle that qualified privilege is destroyed by malice

The purport of the defence of qualified privilege

The tests for determining whether the statement was made in a qualified occasion

The twin conditions that must exist for the defence of qualified privilege to be sustained

What amounts to privileged occasion in reference to qualified privilege

What claimant must prove to destroy the defence of qualified privilege

What must be present before the publication of offensive words can be said to be privileged

What the defence of qualified privilege entails

When the defence of qualified privilege arises

When the defence of qualified privilege is sustained

Whether qualified privilege is based on the truth of the publication

Whether the defence of privilege is available to a defendant where a defamatory statement is proved to be false and malicious

Whether the defence of privilege that attaches to the body of an article also applies to its libellous headline

Whether the defence of qualified privilege must be pleaded

Whether the plaintiff needs to file a reply where the defendant relies on qualified privilege

Whether the truthfulness of a publication is material in the defence of qualified privilege

Whether, in the case of a qualified privilege, it is for the judge to decide whether the duty to communicate exists or not

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