Defamation Causation Damages and Award in UK Law
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Richard v British Broadcasting Corporation
... ... He claims substantial damages because his life and finances have been radically ... I suppose there could still be a defamation risk however we are in an amazing position ... damages can be claimed as a matter of causation. I am not asked to make any quantified award of ... ...
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Heil v Rankin
... ... effectiveness of the present remedy for damages for monetary and non-monetary loss, with ... matter for specific consideration was "the award of damages for pain and suffering and other forms ... those situations, such as actions for defamation, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, ... There were difficult issues of causation and Mr Heil has grounds of appeal against the ... ...
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Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
... ... or as a foundation for a claim for damages unrelated to dismissal, but as a foundation for a ... the three months' notice period; a basic award for unfair dismissal of £1,989 (after a 55% ... cannot—except through an action for defamation—obtain any redress (see the decision of the ... may give rise to difficult questions of causation in cases such as those now before the House, ... ...
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Barratt v Ansell (t/a as Woolf Seddon); Arthur JS Hall & Company v Simons
... ... 42 No one can be sued in defamation for anything said in court. The rule confers an ... Damages are awarded. But what happens then? Does the ... prove in terms of both negligence and causation, but I see no reason why, if the plaintiff has a ... the remedy he claims from his lawyer, an award of damages expressed in monetary terms is the ... ...
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R (C) v Middlesbrough Council; A v Hoare and other appeals
... ... a different regime for actions for "damages for negligence, nuisance or breach of duty", ... , malicious prosecution, or defamation of character, but we do include such actions as ... "have the means to satisfy any significant award of damages." The fact that the motive for the ... 2004 there was a trial on liability, causation, limitation and quantum. The judge found that the ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... The total damages claimed are apparently of the order of £550m., ... 34 (5) Causation ... 35 Causation is an essential element of the ... of the court.' Actions for defamation take many forms. The allegations complained about ... ...
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Hamilton v Al-Fayed (No 2)
... ... , it would no doubt be unjust to make an award of costs against a [non-party]", and that he ... The latter was successful and recovered damages of some £19,000 on the counterclaim. The ... [I]t has become the practice in defamation actions for the defendants, if they discover that ... these applications on grounds of causation. I propose nevertheless to deal with it briefly ... ...
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Spring (A.P.) v Guardian Assurance Plc and Others
... ... Mr. Spring raised an action of damages against all tour defendants pleading causes of ... So an action in defamation by Mr. Spring against any of them or against ... failed principally on the issue of causation, but Hardie Boys J., giving the judgment of the ... ...
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Eastwood v Magnox Electric Plc
... ... Your Lordships' House held that his damages were confined to loss of salary and commission ... for reinstatement or re-engagement or an award of compensation for unfair dismissal calculated ... may give rise to difficult questions of causation in cases such as those now before the House, ... ...
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Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
... ... XVI Causation of loss XVII ... The plaintiffs' essential claim was for damages for the tort of misfeasance in public office ... to that which figures in the law of defamation, namely where the defendant either did not ... or brake of a public policy nature on the award of damages in such cases. For those reasons, I ... ...
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