Injurious Falsehood in UK Law

  • Spring (A.P.) v Guardian Assurance Plc and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 07 Julio 1994
    ...... all tour defendants pleading causes of action in malicious falsehood, breach of contract and negligence. The trial judge, Judge Lever Q.C. ... are already available in the form of actions for defamation, injurious falsehood, breach of contract or breach of confidence." . . ......
  • Lonrho Plc and Others v Fayed and Others (No 5)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Julio 1993
    ...... to reputation could not be recovered in an action for malicious falsehood; the only remedy for such loss in an action for defamation, in which ..., and their statutory modifications, regarding defamation and injurious falsehoods represented compromises gradually worked out by the Courts over ......
  • Duchess of Argyll v Duke of Argyll
    • Chancery Division
  • Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 16 Junio 2010
    ...... frames her claim not only in libel but also in malicious falsehood. Detailed particulars both of falsity and of malice are set out in the ... lawyers, but it is obvious that suggestions might be made very injurious to a man's character in business which would not, in the ordinary sense, ......
  • Riches v DPP
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Marzo 1973
    ......, 1964-, and when one seeks to see the date of the alleged injurious falsehoods the simplest way to see what the plaintiff is setting up is to ... from which I read before, he says this: "So far as injurious falsehood is concerned, it was not in the minds of this Court when it gave leave to ......
  • Grappelli v Derek Block (Holdings) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Enero 1981
    ...... would cause damage, it would give rise to a cause of action for injurious falsehood. A cause of action has been brought accordingly. . ......
  • Fielding v Variety Incorporated
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 Marzo 1967
    ...... and his Company issued a writ claiming damages for libel and injurious falsehood. The defendants did not put in any defence. Judgment was entered ......
  • Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Febrero 1993
    ...... reference will presently be made, of being sued by the Crown for injurious falsehood, any subject is free to express his opinion upon the management ......
  • Ratcliffe v Evans
    • Court of Appeal
    ......The injurious statement complained of was a publication in the County Herald , a Welsh ...In an action like the present, brought for a malicious falsehood intentionally published in a newspaper about the plaintiffs business — a ......
  • Joyce v Sengupta and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 Julio 1992
    ...... (U.K.) Limited, the publisher of the newspaper, for malicious falsehood. In law this is a different cause of action, with different ingredients, ... provided for this is malicious falsehood, sometimes called injurious falsehood or trade libel. This cause of action embraces particular types ......
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