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Blackshaw v Lord

Judgment Weekly Law Reports Cited authorities 27 Cited in 139 Precedent Map Related
JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE STEPHENSON,LORD JUSTICE DUNN,LORD JUSTICE FOX
Judgment Date17 February 1983
Judgment citation (vLex)[1983] EWCA Civ J0217-1
Docket Number83/0071
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date17 February 1983
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  • Appeals
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Canadian Libel and Slander Actions
    • 17 June 2004
    ...that an appellate court might more readily overturn an award by a judge sitting alone than an award by a jury: see Blackshaw v. Lord, [1984] Q.B. 1 at p. 27, [1983] 2 All E.R. 311. The Supreme Court of Canada made no direct comment on the question. The remarks of Justice Cory, who rejected ......
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...had to plead ‘special facts’, such as danger to the public from contaminated food sources or a terrorist threat, as in Blackshaw v Lord[1984] QB 1 at 27. Ang J noted (at [73]) that Singapore courts have not regarded ‘information on political and government matters’ as constituting ‘special ......
  • Defamation law and free speech: Reynolds v. Times Newspapers and the English media.
    • United States
    • Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Vol. 37 No. 5, November 2004
    • 1 November 2004
    ...(93.) Defamation Act. 1996. c. 31. [section] 14. (94.) Toogood v. Spyring, [1834] 1 C.M. & R 181. 193.( (95.) Blackshaw v. Lord. [1984] Q.B. 1. (96.) Id. But the media might be able to rely on an ancillary or derivative protection, for example, if it published one person's reply to an a......
  • Rayner Thwaites, The Liberty of Non‐Citizens: Indefinite Detention in Commonwealth Countries, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014, 307 pp, hb £55.
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 78-1, January 2015
    • 1 January 2015
    ...two leading cases on immigration detention which haveimpacted UK practice: RvGovernor of Durham Prison, ex parte Singh [1983]EWHC 1 (QB), [1984] 1 All ER 983 (Hardial Singh) and Chahal vUnitedKingdom (1997) 23 EHRR 413 (Chahal). In Hardial Singh the English HighCourt implied a temporal limi......
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