A local authority imposed foreclosures on accounts of a businessman due to erroneous fines that remain unpaid, even though he contacted it several times after receiving the fines and before the foreclosures were imposed.
The Court accepted the lawsuit of the businessman for defamation. Defamation is something which publication is liable to: humiliate a person in the eyes of the public, make him a target of hatred and contempt because of acts, behavior, or qualities attributed to him that harm him and his position, business, profession or profession. Here, the presentation of the person, as someone who allegedly evades paying his debts, is capable of humiliating him and harming his good name in the eyes of a reasonable banker, regardless of the amount of the foreclosure. The publication of the foreclosure could also harm his profession as it is a written publication that was sent to the banks in which he had accounts. Therefore, the foreclosures constitute an infringement by virtue of the Prohibition of Defamation Law, and the local authority is to compensate him.