# Suing someone for slander

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**Category:** General Legal Matters\
**Created:** [April 6, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/suing-someone-for-slander/89382 "2016-04-06T05:49:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/suing-someone-for-slander/89382/6 "2016-04-06T14:38:01Z")

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> Somone has been spreading a nasty rumor about X person…for several years now. They have come back to X person ocassionally, rasing like nefarious stenches from the underbelly of a putrid sewer in the summer wind. This X person is now already pissed to the limit. Given that in Taiwan the Law is especially strict regarding damage to one’s honor and good name, and that both parties involved are long time foreign residents in Taiwan, how does one go into presenting a lawsuit of sufficient strenght as to shut the other party up for good? How does one determine the value of the damages?

The key in the Civil Code is Art. 195 (injuries to “body, health, reputation, liberty, credit, privacy or chastity of another, or to another’s personality in a severe way”). In the Criminal Code, “Offenses Against Freedom” start at Art. 296, and “Offenses Against Reputation and Credit” start at 309.

For the amount that should be claimed, the extent and strength of evidence needed, and things in general, your friend should probably talk to a lawyer, but if he/she enjoys reading legalese, there’s always 裁判書查詢 at jirs.judicial.gov.tw for (non-binding) precedents and insight into the minds of Taiwan’s judges.

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