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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>350241</law_id><section_number>17.1-914</section_number><catch_line>Privilege</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="50" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="9" identifier="9">Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The filing of papers with and the giving of <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> before the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall be privileged, except where such filing of papers or giving of <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> is motivated or accompanied by actual <span class="dictionary">malice</span>. No other publication of such papers or proceedings shall be privileged in any action for defamation except that (i) the record filed by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> with the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, in support of a formal complaint filed therewith, continues to be privileged and (ii) a writing which was privileged before its filing with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall not lose such <span class="dictionary">privilege</span> by such filing.</p></section></text><history>1971, Ex. Sess., c. 154, &#xA7; 2.1-37.14; 2001, c. 844.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
