Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10)

PART 2 S Malicious publication

Abolition of common law verbal injuries S

27 Abolition of common law verbal injuries S

(1) Any rules of law providing for a right to bring proceedings for a verbal injury cease to have effect.

(2) Subsection (1) does not affect any right to bring proceedings for a verbal injury which accrued before the commencement of that subsection.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 27 in force at 8.8.2022 by S.S.I. 2022/154, regs. 1(2), 2