Branson v Bower (No.2)
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 15 June 2001 |
Date | 15 June 2001 |
Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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43 cases
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Associated Newspapers Ltd v Burstein
...she relies upon the often-quoted statement of Cussen J in Clarke v. Norton [1910] VLR 494 at 499, approved by the Court of Appeal in Branson v. Bower (No. 1) [2001] EWCA Civ 791 at paragraph 12: “More accurately it has been said that the sense of comment is something which is or can reasona......
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Abraham Mansoor Esau Manooor Edward Mansoor Abdo Mansoor & Sons Ltd Trading as Town House Furnishing Claimants v Grenville Radio Ltd First Defendant Ivor Grenville Theophilus Bird Second Defendant James "SLY J" Simon Third Defendant James Tanny Rose Fourth Defendant [ECSC]
...defence of fair comment must still stand. He referred the Court to Keays v Guardian Newspapers Ltd [2003] EWHC 1565. Branson v Bower [2002] 2 W.L.R 452. He submitted that any honest person would ask "can that quantity of items hold in those premises?" Next, Mr. Marshall submitted that the i......
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W v Westminster City Council
...4 All ER 205, [2002] 1 WLR 1840. B v A-G of New Zealand[2003] UKPC 61, [2003] 4 All ER 833. Branson v Bower [2001] All ER (D) 159 (Jun), [2002] QB 737, [2002] 2 WLR Clark v Molyneux (1877) 3 QBD 237, CA. Cumpana and Mazare v Romania [2004] ECHR 33348/96, ECt HR. D v East Berkshire Community......
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Mir Shakil-ur-rahman v Ary Network Ltd and Another
...is "something which is or can reasonably be inferred to be a deduction, inference, conclusion, criticism, remark, observation, etc." ( Branson v. Bower [2001] EMLR 15 [26]). (3) The ultimate determinant is how the words would strike the ordinary reasonable reader ( Grech v. Odhams Press [1......
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2 books & journal articles
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Lange and Reynolds qualified privilege: Australian and English defamation law and practice.
...Bar Review 45, 47. (93) See, eg, Merivale v Carson (1887) 20 QBD 275, 281 (Lord Esher MR), 283-4 (Bowen LJ). See also Branson v Bower [2002] QB 737, 741 (Eady (94) Sally Walker, 'Lange v ABC: The High Court Rethinks the "Constitutionalisation" of Defamation Law' (1998) 6 Torts Law Journal 9......
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Fair comment, judges and politics in Hong Kong.
...of precedent, as reflecting his own understanding of 'the rationale and the logic of a fair comment defence': Branson v Bower [2002] QB 737, 742-3 (Eady JILL COTTRELL, LLM (Lond), LLM (Yale); Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Hong Kong.