School Law Series 2022: Defamatory Comments on Social Media: Is Your School Liable?
Gain the legal information, updates & strategies you need with a series of the most important topics all tailor made for schools. Make it easy & save by registering for the series or just the sessions that interest you. Watch each session live online or as an on-demand recording. Explore the breadth of vaccinations, hiring & firing, social media, religious discrimination, LGBTIQ+ issues, sexual harassment, defamation, family law, investigations, injuries & leave, cyber risks, governance & more. WEB229N50FZ
Description
Teachers attending will earn 1 Professional Development Hour (NSW, VIC) / CPD Point (QLD, WA, SA)
Lawyers attending will earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Defamatory Comments on Social Media: Is Your School Liable?
- What is and isn’t defamation in 2022?
- How schools should deal with defamation in a social media context
- Risks for schools maintaining social media pages, particularly those who enable comments by third parties
- New cases & reforms potentially impacting your school
- Practical advice for schools to develop a social media policy to effectively deal with defamatory comments on social media platform
- Best practice for monitoring employee comments and third-party comments
- Training anyone using an organisation’s social media
- Minimising the risks of defamatory communications
Presented by Alistair Macpherson, Managing Director, Corney & Lind Lawyers