Publishing in UK Law

  • Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 13 October 1988
    ......Following his retirement from the service he went to live in Australia and later formed the intention of writing and publishing a book of memoirs describing his experiences in the service. He wrote the book in association with a man named Paul Greengrass, and it was accepted ......
  • Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 October 1999
    ......So the defence of justification failed. The jury decided that Mr. Ruddock was not acting maliciously in writing and publishing the words complained of, nor was Mr. Witherow. So, if the occasion was privileged, and that was a question for the judge, the defence of qualified ......
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 06 May 2004
    ......The division of opinion is whether in doing so the newspaper went too far in publishing associated facts about her private life. But the importance of this case lies in the statements of general principle on the way in which the law ......
  • Re S (A Child) (Identification: Restrictions on Publication)
    • House of Lords
    • 28 October 2004
    ......The order expressly prevented any person "publishing any particulars of or information relating to any part of the proceedings before any court which may or is calculated to lead to the identification ......
  • Attorney General v Leveller Magazine Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 01 February 1979
    ...... . 12 Of those contempts that can be committed outside the courtroom the most familiar consist of publishing, in connection with legal proceedings that are pending or imminent, comment or information that has a tendency to pervert the course of justice, ......
  • Riddick v Thames Board Mills Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 March 1977
    ...... that therewas no publication and respectfully to dissent from the opinion of my Lord the Master of the Rolls that the company was publishing a libel to itself. . 63 The next defence of qualified privilege must rest on the company's not being responsible for the malice ......
  • Jameel and Others v Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl
    • House of Lords
    • 11 October 2006
    ...... Allbutt v General Council of Medical Education and Registration (1889) 23 QBD 400 ; Perera v Peiris [1949] AC 1 and Webb v Times Publishing Co Ltd [1960] 2 QB 535 . Thus where a publication related to a matter of public interest, it was accepted that the reciprocal duty and interest ......
  • Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 18 February 1993
  • Goldsmith v Sperrings Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 February 1977
    ......Moreover, "Private Eye" is a publication with asubstantial record and reputation for publishing defamatory matter. The publishers' business manager deposes (one might almost say boasts) in an affidavit before us that they have been sued ......
  • London Artists Ltd v Littler; Grade Organisation Ltd v Littler; Associated Television Ltd v Littler; Grade v Littler
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 December 1968
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