Malicious Falsehood in UK Law

  • Lonrho Plc and Others v Fayed and Others (No 5)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 July 1993
    ... ... for injury to reputation could not be recovered in an action for malicious falsehood; the only remedy for such loss in an action for defamation, in ... ...
  • Drummond-Jackson v British Medical Association
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 February 1970
    ... ... , he has no action for libel : but at most an action for malicious falsehood ... These two actions must be kept distinct. They have very ... ...
  • Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 1)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2000
    ... ... were in breach of confidence, and probably contract and malicious falsehood as well, and that he would continue Buckley J's order. The ... ...
  • Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 16 June 2010
    ... ... Thornton frames her claim not only in libel but also in malicious falsehood. Detailed particulars both of falsity and of malice are set out ... ...
  • Spring (A.P.) v Guardian Assurance Plc and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 07 July 1994
    ... ... damages against all tour defendants pleading causes of action in malicious falsehood, breach of contract and negligence. The trial judge, Judge Lever ... ...
  • Wainwright v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 16 October 2003
    ... ... Common law torts include trespass, nuisance, defamation and malicious falsehood; there is the equitable action for breach of confidence and ... ...
  • Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 February 1992
    ... ... Finally, the authority may have an action for malicious (sometimes called "injurious") falsehood. The distinction between the ... ...
  • Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 18 February 1993
    ... ... will presently be made, of being sued by the Crown for injurious falsehood, any subject is free to express his opinion upon the management of the ... He considered that the right to sue for malicious falsehood gave such a body all the protection which was necessary. Similar ... ...
  • Roberts v Gill & Company and Another
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 May 2010
    ... ... as causes of action: conversion in sections 3 and 4, libel and malicious falsehood in section 4A, negligence and nuisance causing personal injury ... ...
  • Kaye v Robertson
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 March 1990
    ... ... and Lord Justice Leggatt Court of Appeal Libel - malicious falsehood - right to privacy Newspaper provokes call for right to ... ...
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