Jimmy Savile was a paedophile
But does a new law allow me to say that?
Am I committing a crime when I say the police investigated allegations that the entertainer Jimmy Savile was a notorious paedophile?
That seems to be the effect of section 12 of the Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022, which came into force on 28 September 2023.
This is how section 12 begins:
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