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The central sanctioning stamp of media law within freedom-of-expression legislation is the defamation regime — and it is precisely there that the main source of journalistic risk lies. The Law of Georgia on Freedom of Speech and Expression builds this field on several supports: the absolute protection of professional secrecy and its source, the differing standards of defamation of private and public figures, the boundaries of liability and the procedure for compensating harm. This page reads those norms from a media-compliance standpoint: what an editorial office must know so that published material does not become the subject of a claim, and what arguments remain in its hands if a claim is brought nonetheless.