CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRIVILEGE (§ 17.1-914)

The filing of papers with and the giving of testimony before the Commission
shall be privileged, except where such filing of papers or giving of testimony
is motivated or accompanied by actual malice. No other publication of such
papers or proceedings shall be privileged in any action for defamation except
that (i) the record filed by the Commission with the Supreme Court, in support
of a formal complaint filed therewith, continues to be privileged and (ii) a
writing which was privileged before its filing with the Commission shall not
lose such privilege by such filing.

HISTORY: 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 154, § 2.1-37.14; 2001, c. 844.