Comment on Teenage boy allegedly stabbed to death in front of lunchtime crowd at Melbourne shopping centre
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 months agoFor legal reasons they have to use alleged until court proceedings make a judgement officially or it becomes defamatory.
Baku@aussie.zone 2 months ago
How is it defamatory? It’s not defamatory. It doesn’t accuse a specific person of stabbing anyone, and a situation can’t be defamation. Unless shopping centres or suburbs can sue for defamation, in which case, they still couldn’t, because it objectively happened.
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Because it hasn’t been tried in court and an official ruling hasn’t been made.
smh.com.au/…/alleged-crimes-and-obscured-identiti…
There are technicalities to the legal system, if you name them as a murdered and the case was acquitted or a different outcome came of it from the court ruling you have just named them a murderer when technically they weren’t and you have defamed them.
Baku@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yes, but in regard to the title, nobody was accused, therefore nobody can sue for defamation.