The Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of a Copywriter

Defamation is a statement that causes harm to the character of the person or organisation it concerns. Importantly, it can cause a business or individual to start legal proceedings. It can be often confused with libel and slander. In fact, these are both types of defamation and fall under the same category. 

Contempt is an act of disrespect or disobedience toward a court or interference with its orderly process. Examples include disrupting court proceedings, interfering with attempts to obtain evidence, destroying evidence, disobeying a court order, and intimidating witnesses. Risk being found in contempt of court if you act in a way that is disruptive, disrespectful, or that threatens the fair verdict or outcome of a case. 

Confidentiality is the concept and practice of keeping secret sensitive information until the data’s owner or guardian expressly consents for it to be shared with another party. It might also be a request to uphold the rule and custom. Owners and guardians of sensitive data create policies defining the categories of information that require protection in order to ensure this.

Harassment is unwanted behaviour related to a relevant protected characteristic that has the intention or effect of breaching a person’s dignity or producing a hostile, intimidating, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment for that person.



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