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Can you sue someone for giving you a bad reference?

  • Written by David Rolph, Associate Professor of Media Law, University of Sydney
imageGiving a reference is protected, in defamation law, by the common-law defence of qualified privilege.shutterstock

It may be that, on the basis of a reference, you do not get the job or the scholarship or the finance for which you were applying. But despite the wide application of Australian defamation law, if you’ve been given a bad...

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