He also said the magazine would be negligent in publishing allegations to the contrary.

But they never told readers until a competitor, the magazine Focus, published allegations about him two weeks ago.

Earlier the paper had published allegations of Yeltsin's involvement with the Italian Mafia.

On 23 November 1912, the Daily Mail published serious false allegations against Vicars.

I would be very concerned about publishing allegations which may not be true.

On 19 January 2008, The Age newspaper published allegations of animal cruelty at the zoo.

But to what extent will these common-law principles protect the media when it publishes allegations of misconduct to the world?

Kitagawa denied these claims, and in 2002 was awarded an 8.8 million yen judgment against the magazine that had published such allegations.