Sustainable development and rule of law: unlocking legislative committee's creativity

Abstract

Defamation is one of the actionable wrongs at common law that has to do with injury of character which is usually attribute to human beings. This paper examines if a company, being a juristic legal person also has power and authority like every other normal human being to institute action for defamation. In doing this, the paper examines the concept of juristic personality of a company, it is locus standi to sue for an action in defamation, legal provisions for the proof of defamation and gravity of injury to character that qualifies for defamation. This paper posits that even if there are administrative shortcomings in a company; that does not in any way extinguish her right to maintain an action for defamation sine the philosophy behind the recognition of the company’s right is the need to protect it from unjustifiable imputation which may affect and lower it in the estimation of the eyes of the right thinking members of the society.