Key legal question
Whether the complainant had standing to appeal on the merits in a defamation case.
Extracted holding
He lacked standing because, in offences against honour, victim status requires a direct and objectively significant impairment of physical or psychological integrity, which was not alleged here.
Extracted reasoning
Without victim status under the Victim Support Act and Federal Tribunal Act, the complainant may appeal on the merits only if he was wrongly denied the right to file a complaint or if a separate formal right was violated. No such ground was invoked.