Bonnard v Perryman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Year1891
Date1891

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232 cases
  • Greene v Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 November 2004
    ...able to establish that publication should not be allowed. The judge commented that that argument inevitably conflicted with the rule in Bonnard v Perryman, and would create a wholly new test for a judge to apply on an application for an interim injunction in defamation cases. 26 Anticipatin......
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd and Others v Vetplus Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 July 2007
    ...bearing a false or unsupportable claim as to its contents. The sting of the proposed advertisement is just that. 18 Being unable, because of Bonnard, to obtain a prior restraining order to prevent the alleged libel or malicious falsehood as such, Boehringer turn to the law of registered tra......
  • Gulf Oil (Great Britain) Ltd v Page
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 April 1987
    ...he intends to justify it or to make fair comment on a matter of public interest. That has been established for many years ever since Bonnard v. Perryman. The reason sometimes given is that the defences of justification and fair comment are for the jury, which is the constitutional tribunal,......
  • CTOS Sdn Bhd and Others; Ngoi Thiam Who
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2001
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  • 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......
2 books & journal articles
  • Interlocutory injunctions: american cyanamid comes of age
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 3-1, June 1993
    • 1 June 1993
    ...regarded as a "special factor", namely that the public interest in freedom of speech will be overriding save in the clearest cases. 11 [1891] 2 Ch.269. 12 Att.-Gen. v. British Broadcasting Corporation [1981] A.C. 303 at 342. 13 [1984] 1 W.L.R. 1160. It is otherwise where the plaintiffs case......
  • 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......