Absolute Privilege in UK Law
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Lincoln v Daniels
... ... There had beer, no plea of qualified privilege and no question of malice arose for the jury's decision ... 16 The plea of absolute privilege seemed, to this court to require an understanding of the ... ...
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Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
... ... issues at the trial were: the meaning of the article, qualified privilege at common law, justification, malice and damages. During the trial the ... expression is of such a high order that the occasion attracts absolute privilege, as with statements made by judges or advocates or witnesses in ... ...
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Taylor v Director of the Serious Fraud Office
... ... They held that the absolute immunity which attaches to witnesses and potential witnesses should be ... 480 the House extended the original absolute privilege attaching to a witness's statement in court to his statements in ... ...
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Jones v Kaney
... ... This is not just privilege for the purposes of the law of defamation but is a true immunity" - ... Thus the immunity originally took the form of absolute privilege against a claim for defamation and it extended to all who took ... ...
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Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation
... ... (5) The fact that absolute privilege against an action for defamation protects those participating in ... ...
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... been established that judge, witnesses and barristers alike have absolute privilege with regard to what is said by them in Court: and for reasons ... ...
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R v Derby Magistrates' Court, ex parte B
... ... appeals raised important questions concerning legal professional privilege and the scope of section 97 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980. The ... But he submitted that the rule should not be absolute. There might be occasions, if only by way of rare exception, in which the ... ...
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R (Prudential Plc) v Special Commissioner of Income Tax
... ... on the ground that the documents are covered by legal advice privilege (LAP), in a case where the legal advice was given by accountants in ... in the common law of Scotland, as "(in broad terms) a right of absolute privilege in respect of communications emanating between a solicitor and a ... ...
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Minter v Priest
... ... ground that the slander was protected from disclosure because of privilege, and that and that only is the question on this appeal ... 2 The ... to the relationship is waived, the privilege of the occasion is absolute ... 22 For these reasons I think the appeal should be allowed ... ...
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Medcalf v Mardell (Wasted Costs Order)
... ... have been made when they were precluded by legal professional privilege from answering the complaints made against them. The appeal requires the ... very damaging allegations for which (because of the law of absolute privilege) they could obtain no redress. Thus a barrister must be ... ...
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