It’s a fact of modern life that your business, professional and personal reputation is on the line every minute of the day on the Internet. Unlike print or broadcast media, damaging material appearing on the Internet can remain there permanently. Surry Partners Lawyers can help you pursue a variety of approaches to protect your reputation. We will consider a range of measures from the enforcement
of defamation laws to other legal avenues which can protect you from attacks your name, your business name or your brands. Defamation is the publication of a statement that tends to make others think less of you or your business or professional reputation. You may be able to recover monetary damages if the defamation is serious. If the defamatory statement is permanently posted on a web site, you may be able to have it removed. A qualified lawyer can help you to have damaging statements taken down. We can also explain the legal defences that exist if you have unwittingly defamed someone else. While there are limits on companies with more than ten (10) employees bringing an action in defamation in Australia, we can explain other avenues which might also provide relief such as the torts of breach of confidence, injurious falsehood, deceit, negligent misstatement and misleading and deceptive conduct and other breaches the Australian Consumer Law. We also work with specialist search engine optimization experts who can assist you remove such material in a practical way which works hand-in-hand with the law. The publication of defamatory material and your personal images on the internet not only affects your reputation and good name, but the damage can be extensive once they are indexed by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, or Bing. That is why it is important to work with our lawyers and search enhancement professionals to have them removed promptly from both the offending website and from the search engine cache. Our lawyers will know which strategies work best, depending on the nature and location of the web site or web sites on which the defamatory statement is published. If you have been the victim of a cyber attack on your reputation that has hurt your good name or business; contact one of our Internet defamation lawyers today. We’ll help you to protect it.
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