GIVING INFORMATION TO PERSON INTERESTED.
314.
No person shall be deemed to publish a defamatory libel
publishes to another person defamatory matter
for the purpose of giving information to that person
with respect to a subject-matter in which
the person to whom the information is given has,
or is believed on reasonable grounds by the person who gives it to have,
an interest in knowing the truth with respect to that subject-matter if
- (a)
the conduct of the person who gives the information
is reasonable in the circumstances;
- (b)
the defamatory matter is relevant to the subject-matter; and
- (c)
the defamatory matter is true,
or if it is not true,
is made without ill-will toward the person who is defamed
and is made in the belief, on reasonable grounds, that it is true.
[R.S., c.C-34, s.278.]
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