reyhane kooshshkar; vahide ghasemi ahde
Abstract
methods in Iran and UK legal system have been comparatively investigated. This concept, although not defined in Iran laws but by regarding the available legal sources such as Constitution, Civil Liability Act and other laws, there is no doubt for demanding it specially for natural persons and private ...
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methods in Iran and UK legal system have been comparatively investigated. This concept, although not defined in Iran laws but by regarding the available legal sources such as Constitution, Civil Liability Act and other laws, there is no doubt for demanding it specially for natural persons and private legal persons and for compensating it, restitutionary and non-financial methods such as apologizing, publishing judgment in newspaper, mutual accountability and also financial compensation are stipulated. However in judicial precedent, compensation of such damage -especially through financial methods- is less accepted. Vice versa in UK legal system, the main method of compensation includes libel and slander by paying some money that, as the case maybe, is made by compensatory damage, symbolic or nominal damage, contemptuous or exemplary damage and the only restitution is injunction. Filing claims on defamation has been common in this country since medieval and so far a lot of judgment has been issued in this case and some rules have been approved. Of course, filing such claims is merely possible for alive natural persons and legal persons like commercial companies and governmental organizations do not have this right.
