Free Speech in UK Law
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Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd
... ... statement of fact made in the course of political discussion is free from liability if published in good faith. Liability arises only if the ... for a wide qualified privilege at common law for 'political speech'. The judge ruled that publication of the article was not privileged ... ...
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms
... ... 1 I have had the advantage of reading in draft the speech prepared by my noble and learned friend Lord Steyn. For the reasons which ... They rely on the right to free speech not in a general way but restricted to a very specific context: ... ...
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Pro-Life Alliance v BBC
... ... 6 Freedom of political speech is a freedom of the very highest importance in any country which lays ... Party political broadcasts and party election broadcasts, transmitted free, are an exception. These 'party broadcasts' are the only occasions when ... ...
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Hubbard v Pitt
... ... Perryman (1891) 2 Ch. at page 284 : ... 25 "The right of free speech is one which it is for the public interest that individuals should ... ...
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Brind
... ... the case, of which I gratefully adopt the full account given in the speech of my learned and noble friend Lord Ackner, I find it impossible to say ... field which concerns a fundamental human right � namely that of free speech � close scrutiny must be given to the reasons provided as ... ...
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R (on the application of Lord Carlile of Berriew QC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... It failed to give due weight to the significance of the right of free speech protected by article 10 and the stringency of the test for ... ...
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Campbell v MGN Ltd
... ... The photographs of her attending a meeting were taken by a free lance photographer specifically employed by the newspaper to do the job ... 47 The first development is generally associated with the speech of Lord Goff of Chieveley in Attorney-General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ... ...
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Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
... ... I will refer to the passage from Lord Devlin's speech in Rookes v. Barnard relating to the categories later for its proper ... I thought that this House was therefore free to say that no more than that was to be awarded in future ... 163 We ... ...
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... that advocates should be at liberty to abuse their privilege of free speech subject only to animadversion or punishment from the presiding ... ...
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Brown v Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline)
... ... has not sufficient means to pay for legal assistance, to be given it free when the interests of justice so require; ... Thus the principles of free speech and privacy may collide. They also realised only too well that a ... ...
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