Law reform, legal transplants and developing the law of defamation

Brown, Jonathan (2020) Law reform, legal transplants and developing the law of defamation. Scottish Law Gazette. ISSN 0036-9314 (In Press)

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Abstract

Considers the extent to which it may be claimed that the Defamation and Malicious Publications (Scotland) Bill is - adopting the language of Professor Alan Watson - a 'failure of the legal imagination' which, if enacted, will unduly and uncritically Anglicise the Scots law of Defamation and Verbal Injury.