Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10)

PART 2 Malicious publication

Abolition of common law verbal injuries

27 Abolition of common law verbal injuries

(1) Any rules of law providing for a right to bring proceedings for a verbal injury cease to have effect.

(2) Subsection (1) does not affect any right to bring proceedings for a verbal injury which accrued before the commencement of that subsection.