Absolute Privilege in UK Law

  • Protecting the reputation of defamation law: How defamation law can remain justified in an age of globalized communications, science, human rights and democratic values
    • No. 2-2, July 2012
    • Southampton Student Law Review
    • Charlotte Leigha Cruise
    • 77-98
    The 59,511 signature strong petition for libel reform clearly demonstrates the impetus for reform of Anglo-Welsh defamation law. This dissertation identifies the increased importance of freedom of ...
    ... ... and is honestly believed to be true should replace the Reynolds privilege. It is also considered a single publication rule bolster the protection ... argued that it is justifiable on utilitarian grounds to provide absolute privilege to scientific expression ... To reflect the recognition of ... ...
  • More Sounds of Silence: Cobra Golf Ltd v Rata
    • No. 5-2, April 1997
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 161-164
    If the exception proves the existence of the rule, then by parity of reasoning Cobra Golf Ltd v Rata affirms the continued application of the common law privilege against self‐incrimination. For th...
    ... ... Ltd v Rata1 affirms the continued application of the common law privilege against self-incrimination. For the case stands out against the background ... to rule that the privilege against self-incrimination was an absolute right. In Cobra Golf Rimer J affirmed the rule that a court should not ... ...
  • Defamation appeal: Court of Appeal rules that qualified privilege applies in respect of letter to regulator Mahon and Another v Rahn and Others
    • No. 9-1, January 2001
    • Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
    • 91-95
    The factual background to this appeal was given in Vol.8, No.1 Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance when the judgment at first instance, from which this appeal by the Defendants was broug...
    ... ... and malicious prosecu-tion proceedings brought by the respon-dents against the Appellants Eady J dismissed the Appellants' argument that absolute privilege attached to the letter to TSA and so their argument that the defa-mation claim against them should be struck out failed. The Appellants ... ...
  • The Second Report of the Council on Tribunals
    • No. 39-4, December 1961
    • Public Administration
    ... ... -color:white;overflow:hidden;margin:0;border:0;}.pc{position:absolute ... appear before tribunals should be covered by absolute privilege ; and (ii) whether the parties in tribunal proceedings should ... ...
  • Mahon and another v Rahn and others. High Court, Queen's Bench Division: Eady J
    • No. 8-1, January 2000
    • Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
    • 78-81
    The claimants in these proceedings were a Mr Patrick Mahon and Mr Andrew Kent. The Defendants were partners in the Swiss Bank of Rahn & Bodmer. At the time in which the events giving rise to these ...
    ... ... argued: i) that it should be dismissed since the defence of absolute privilege is, in the light of the House of Lords decision in Taylor, so ... ...
  • Criminal Law and Practice in Scotland
    • No. 35-2, March 1962
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ... ... -color:white;overflow:hidden;margin:0;border:0;}.pc{position:absolute ... was that the Lord Advocate should enjoy an absolute privilege in the discharge of his official duties in the administration ... ...
  • Round the World
    • No. 40-3, March 1967
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ... ... -color:white;overflow:hidden;margin:0;border:0;}.pc{position:absolute ... Illinois (1964) when the Court recognized the absolute privilege of the citizen against self-incrimination and his constitutional right ... ...
  • Self-Incrimination and the Threat of Prosecution under Foreign Law: Brannigan v Davison
    • No. 2-1, January 1998
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    ... ... -color:white;overflow:hidden;margin:0;border:0;}.pc{position:absolute ... , addressed the question of whether the privilege against self-incrimination extends to evidence whose provision ... ...
  • Noticeboard
    • No. 20-4, October 2016
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    ... ... of any communication assistance scheme.Counselling privilege—AustraliaSexual Assault Counselling Privilege. Queensland Department of ... a constitutional challenge to the NSW model, which providesan absolute privilege for preliminary proceedings and a qualified privilege for ... ...
  • REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
    • No. 39-2, March 1976
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... -color:white;overflow:hidden;margin:0;border:0;}.pc{position:absolute ... Privilege. Once again, the Committee largely proposes the retention of ... ...
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