QUESTION 4

At the Christmas Dinner of Office Ltd, Jan is asked to give a speech celebrating the career of the managing director, Keith, who is retiring. Halfway through the speech, Jan breaks into speaking Dutch, a language which the managing director speaks fluently, and says that any success which the managing director has enjoyed has been achieved by personal meanness and by spying on the activities of competing firms. Later that day Keith posts an article on the Internet which says that Jan is incapable of telling the truth and that this condition has been brought about because he is suffering from AIDS. Jan's friend, Lenny, tells Jan about this article. Jan contacted the Internet service provider on whose news server this article had appeared and the provider immediately removed the article. Advise the parties of any torts which might have been committed in respect of the above facts.