Defamation Causation in UK Law
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Slipper v British Broadcasting Corporation
... ... this decision and contend that it is a rule of law binding in defamation cases and that the exceptions to it based on the decision in Speight v ... In my view this case in form is concerned with the question of causation because of the requirement at that time to prove special damage to ... ...
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Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA
... ... , aggravated damages, exemplary damages amounting to damages for defamation, damages being compensatory and not punitive, and the irrelevance of ... will consider the question of breach, the limiting principles of causation, remoteness and mitigation as well as the question of the availability of ... ...
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Spring (A.P.) v Guardian Assurance Plc and Others
... ... So an action in defamation by Mr. Spring against any of them or against their employers would have ... The claim failed principally on the issue of causation, but Hardie Boys J., giving the judgment of the Court of Appeal, said in ... ...
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Barratt v Ansell (t/a as Woolf Seddon); Arthur JS Hall & Company v Simons
... ... 41 5. The witness analogy ... 42 No one can be sued in defamation for anything said in court. The rule confers an absolute immunity which ... may be extremely hard to prove in terms of both negligence and causation, but I see no reason why, if the plaintiff has a real prospect of success, ... ...
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Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
... ... reduced he cannot—except through an action for defamation—obtain any redress (see the decision of the House of Lords in [ Addis v ... legalistic distinction may give rise to difficult questions of causation in cases such as those now before the House, where financial loss is ... ...
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Hamilton v Al-Fayed (No 2)
... ... [I]t has become the practice in defamation actions for the defendants, if they discover that the plaintiff has ... in any event to have dismissed these applications on grounds of causation. I propose nevertheless to deal with it briefly since it illustrates the ... ...
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Heil v Rankin
... ... 26 Even in those situations, such as actions for defamation, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, where it is still normal to ... 170 There were difficult issues of causation and Mr Heil has grounds of appeal against the judge's decision on this ... ...
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R (C) v Middlesbrough Council; A v Hoare and other appeals
... ... to the person, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, or defamation of character, but we do include such actions as claims for negligence ... In May 2004 there was a trial on liability, causation, limitation and quantum. The judge found that the appellant had been ... ...
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Eastwood v Magnox Electric Plc
... ... legalistic distinction may give rise to difficult questions of causation in cases such as those now before the House, where financial loss is ... ...
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D v East Berkshire Community NHS Trust and Another
... ... Equally plainly, however, while foreseeability and causation are necessary elements in any successful claim for damages based on ... ...
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