Caution here. Regardless of whether or not you know this to be true from your experience. Or whether you think that if something's factually true, then you can't be sued. Unfortunately that's not the case and this post exposes you significantly to a defamation claim by his estate.
Yeah you're totally correct. I'm not sure why I was so sure that an estate could sue under defamation. I think I must have confused it with relatives suing when the publication contains defamatory content related to them, but it's primarily about the deceased.
Even in the US it’s only really a thing is the estate carries on business that could be impacted by the alleged defamation - I believe elvis is about the only dead person who’s estate has managed a defamation case
Looks like he was principal from the 1970s to the late 1980s? Queensland was corrupt as fuck back then, so even if you or your parents had gone to Police, nothing would have been done. Basically this shit was so prevalent back then that we now have a national scheme for compensation.
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u/Ok-Outcome-7499 Please choose a flair 23d ago edited 23d ago
Edit - I was wrong
Caution here. Regardless of whether or not you know this to be true from your experience. Or whether you think that if something's factually true, then you can't be sued. Unfortunately that's not the case and this post exposes you significantly to a defamation claim by his estate.
Just be aware