yikes
slander is still a common law tort - - -
the acts dont replace do they 'instead of' - but "both and"
but no matter - outrageous statements may be actionable depending on what they were -
you dont get legal aid for diddly squat nowadays so that is not very useful
witness statements in court and off are privileged and immune from suit
I liked the idea of ' you dont get a chance to..' hur hur hur
so how on earth did Sir Roy Meadow get struck off for giving crap expert witness testimoney ? good one
and no one so far has mentioned - witness offences
perjury ( needs a witness to the perjured testimony - and is only activated if the verdict needs to be rolled back and starts off wiv 2 y in da slammer wiv yer mates )
and perversion of the course of justice
so we have just about covered everything in bits and pieces ....
and what happenif lawyers lie in court ?
nothing
He told the court that prosecutors had made two mistakes at a bail hearing on 14 July. One was their claim that Haneef's SIM card had been found in a burning jeep at Glasgow Airport when, in fact, it had been found in the possession of the brother of a terrorism suspect in Liverpool. The second error was their accusation that Haneef had once lived with some of the UK bombing suspects, when in fact he had not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhamed_Haneef
certain amount of gubmint shoulder shrugging and that is it