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• 'There's a new level of anger': the women fighting to end the 'rough sex' defence

  27-11-2019 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The shocking Grace Millane killing has highlighted a dramatic rise in the number of murder cases in which ‘rough sex’ is the defence. Now women are speaking out, sharing their stories and campaigning for a change in the law
  In the first 48 hours after the guilty verdict in the Grace Millane murder case, Fiona Mackenzie received 50 interview requests from the media in the UK, US and New Zealand. In the previous week, as Millane’s killer claimed she had died in a “sex game
  
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• Asic defamation case win may strengthen key free-speech defence

  27-11-2019 03:35 via theguardian.com
  
  A judge has found that Asic, which was being sued for defamation by a trader, was protected by qualified privilege The corporate regulator has defeated a defamation claim brought against it by the head of a sharemarket trading company in a case that bolsters the defence of qualified privilege.Qualified privilege protects publication of otherwise defamatory material if the publisher has a duty or interest to publish the material and the person to whom the publication is made has a reciprocal duty
  
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