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The law of defamation has long provided protection to artistic and literary critics expressing their opinions on works of literature and art. Historically, it was the fair comment defence that performed this function. Formally, the applicability of the defence focused on the defendant’s conduct and state of mind. However, a detailed historical study of four leading Australian defamation cases from the first half of the 20th century reveals that, in practice, the reputation of the plaintiff may well have been an important factor in determining whether the defence was successfully invoked. Doctrinal uncertainty combined with jury trial to give the operation of the defence in artistic and literary criticism cases more subtlety that has previously been recognised. }

{\textcopyright} 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. For the CH3CHOO Criegee intermediates (ethanal-oxide) and analogous anions, we obtain heats of formations and electron affinities at CCSDT(Q)/CBS level of theory by means of the high-level W3-F12 thermochemical protocol. The electron affinities amount to 0.20 eV and 0.35 eV for the cis and trans isomer, respectively. Neutral cis and trans isomers are separated by 14.1 kJ/mol, the anions are almost isoenergetic (0.4 kJ/mol separation). Harmonic vibrational frequencies are presented at CCSD(T)/aug'-cc-pVTZ level of theory. Since the synthesis of these species in gas-phase experiments might be possible in the near future, we include a predicted photoelectron spectrum.