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Old Jan 23, 2017 | 1:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Jimmie76
I'm not a lawyer but surely it depends on the content of the email? if someone accuses me of doing something (like trying to "Trying to circumvent the loyalty system") that I'm not and they can't prove that in a court of law I will be wanting an apology at the very least. I know there was a change in the defamation law a few years ago but I think the basic principle still stands - you need to be able to prove it in court.
Wikipedia will tell you why this isn't defamation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation

No one is going to court over this.
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