Bonnard v Perryman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1891
CourtCourt of Appeal
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222 cases
  • CTOS Sdn Bhd and Others; Ngoi Thiam Who
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2001
  • Foley v Sunday Newspapers Ltd
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 28 January 2005
    ...Constitution of Ireland 1937, Article 40 - European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, article 10 - Bonnard v Perryman [1891] 2 Ch. 269; Sinclair v Gogarty [1937] I.R. 377, Fraser v Evans [1969] 1 Q.B. 349 and Herbage Pressdram Ltd. [1984] 2 All E.R. 769and SP.U.C. v Grog......
  • Holley v Smyth
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 December 1997
    ...his assertions, if he is allowed to publish them and is subsequently sued for defamation. That at once introduces the doctrine in Bonnard v. Perryman (1891) 2 Ch 269 . Lord Coleridge CJ, in a judgment with which Lord Esher MR and Lindley, Bowen and Lopes L.JJ agreed, said this (at p.284): ......
  • Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation ; Same v Hat Trick Productions Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 12 June 1996
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1 firm's commentaries
  • A Rare Breed - Libel Injunctions
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 18 October 2010
    ...and successfully obtained her injunction. Interim libel injunctions are rare because of the rule in the old case of Bonnard v. Perryman (1891) 2 Ch 269: interim injunctions should not be granted in defamation cases where the defendants indicate an intention to prove the truth of what they p......
3 books & journal articles
  • The Relevane of Constitutional Rights to the Granting of an Interlocutory Injunction
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 12-2013, January 2013
    • 1 January 2013
    ...the words complained of but that there is no doubt that they are defamatory … The reason for the reluctance 61 Bonnard v Perryman [1891] 2 Ch 269 62 Ibid , p.284 63 Coulson and Sons v Coulson & Co [1887] 3 TLR 846 64 This principle was accepted by the Supreme Court in Sinclair v Gogarty [19......
  • Developing the common law: how far is too far?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 37 No. 1, April - April 2013
    • 1 April 2013
    ...[42]. (58) Murray v Express Newspapers plc [2009] Ch 481. (59) O'Neill (2006) 227 CLR 57, 115-16 [173]-[175], citing Bonnard v Perryman [1891] 2 Ch 269. (60) Panel of Eminent Persons ('Ipp Committee'), Review of the Law of Negligence: Final Report (61) Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) s 5D, c......
  • Tort Law for Cynics
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 77-5, September 2014
    • 1 September 2014
    ...attitude towards injunctions (interim or permanent) limiting speech seeAlexander vUS (1993) 509 US 544, 550.90 See eg, Bonnard vPerryman [1891] 2 Ch 269; Greene vAssociated Newspapers Ltd [2004] EWCA Civ1462, [2005] 1 QB 972. Incidentally, there was a time when injunction against a defamato......

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