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Fri 09 Sep 2009Media complaints can be settled without lawyers, says watchdog
EXPENSIVE LEGAL processes will be invoked much less frequently following the enactment of the Defamation Act, according to the Press Ombudsman, Prof John Horgan.
In a speech to members of the Regional Newspapers and Publishers Association in Tullamore, Co Offaly yesterday, he said that the completion of the procedures envisaged by the Act would create a radically new system of accountability for the print media.
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