Discuss (b) Hicklin test

The defamation (the reputation's crime (and tort (the double-life (the Muluki Criminal Code 2074's criminal face + the tort's civil face (the LAW5505-U2 companion))))): the definition's elements (the imputation (the reputation-lowering statement (the right-thinking- society test)); the identification (the victim's referenceability); the publication (the third-party's communication (the media's element))). The libel-and-slander (the classic division): the libel (the permanent form (the writing-and-image (the print-and-post world))); the slander (the transient form (the spoken (the broadcast's classification lore)); the division's digital blurring (the online's permanence (the everything-libel era)). The criminal-and-civil balance (the exam's critical core): the criminalisation's debate (the chilling-effect (the journalist's-jail fear) vs the serious- harm's answer (the malicious-lies' punishment)); the decriminalisation's international trend (the civil-remedy's preference (the ICCPR-19's interpretation faces)). The defences (the exam's list): the truth (the justification (the honest-note: the truth's sufficiency (the public-benefit-condition debate (the common-law's variants)))); the fair comment (the opinion's protection (the public- interest's subject (the honest-opinion's test (the fact-opinion divide)))); the privilege (the absolute (the parliamentary (U2.6) and the judicial (the fair-report (U4))); the qualified (the public-interest- duties (the press-conference-and-the-report privilege))); the innocent-dissemination (the distributor's defence (the platform's face)); the apology-and-correction (the mitigation (the offer-of- amends' faces)).