Protection in respect of disclosure of court information
23 Protection in respect of disclosure of court information
If court information is disclosed pursuant to an entitlement under this Act—
no action for defamation or breach of confidence lies against the Crown, a court or a court officer by reason of the disclosure of the information, and
no action for defamation or breach of confidence in respect of any publication involved in, or resulting from, the disclosure of the information lies against the author of a record containing the information or any other person by reason of the author or other person having supplied the record to a court, and
neither the person by whom the disclosure is made nor any other person concerned in disclosing the information is guilty of an offence merely because of the disclosing of the information.
The giving of access to court information pursuant to an entitlement under this Act does not constitute, for the purposes of the law relating to defamation or breach of confidence, an authorisation or approval of the publication of a record containing the information or its contents by the person to whom access to the information is given.
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