PUBLICATION INVITED OR NECESSARY.
312.
No person shall be deemed to publish a defamatory libel
by reason only that he
publishes defamatory matter
- (a)
on the invitation or challenge of the person
in respect of whom it is published, or
- (b)
that it is necessary to publish in order to refute
defamatory matter published in respect of him by another person,
if he believes that the defamatory matter is true
and it is relevant to the invitation,
challenge or necessary refutation, as the case may be,
and does not in any respect exceed what is reasonably sufficient
in the circumstances.
[R.S., c.C-34, s.276.]
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