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Part 4Procedure

49Limitation on subsequent actions

Where any proceedings for defamation have been determined by settlement, judgment, final order, or discontinuance, the plaintiff in those proceedings may not, except by the leave of the court, commence or continue any other proceedings for defamation against any defendant in the first proceedings in relation to the same publication or to any other publication of the matter in respect of which the first proceedings were commenced.
Notice of an application for leave under subsection (1) to commence or continue any proceedings for defamation shall be given by the applicant to every person against whom the proceedings are to be commenced or continued.
In this section court means the court in which it is sought to commence or continue the proceedings for defamation.