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The term “group libel” in this paper refers to that genre of legal processes in which the right to maintain an action is delegated to a representative body empowered by statute to maintain an action for defamation on behalf of a particular racial, ethnic, national, or religious section of the general public. The nature of the action varies from country to country.
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See report of Faurisson case (Le Monde, 18 July 1981) for application of French statute which authorizes representative communal organizations to maintain an action for racial defamation.
Law for the suppression of racism enacted 30 July 1981.
Italian Law No. 962, Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 October 1967.
Article 28….
Federation of Swiss Jewish Communities v. Mathez (Canton of Vaud, 19 December 1968 ).
Racial Discrimination [White Paper Command 6234, HMSO September 1975].
Race Relations Act 1965 [Section 6].
The Times (London), 9 January 1978.
For a study of Nazi recruitment of schoolchildren and teenagers, see “Nazis in the playground,” published by the Centre for Contemporary Studies, London, England, May 1981.
Review of Public Order Act Command 7891, HMSO April 1980.
Judge McKinnon, quoted in Sunday Telegraph (London), 8 January 1978.
Daily Telegraph (London) report, 25 July 1978.
Daily Mail (London), 30 January 1979.
Guardian (London), 13 January 1982. (15) Guardian, 29 September 1982.
Guardian, 29 September 1982.
See Section 70, Race Relations Act of 1976.
Command 7891 (as above).
New Law Journal, 25 March 1982.
Under Section 5A [subsection 6], publication and distribution to members of an association of which the publisher and distributor is himself a member is exempted from prosecution under the Act.
Schenk v. US 249, US 47 (1919).
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Gewirtz, J. (1983). The Case for a Group Libel Law in Great Britain. In: Fried, C. (eds) Minorities: Community and Identity. Life Sciences Research Reports, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69311-3_27
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