Capital and Counties Bank. Ltd v Henty

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1881
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • Lewis v Daily Telegraph Ltd; Rubber Improvement Ltd v Daily Telegraph Ltd; Rubber Improvement Ltd v Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • Invalid date
    ... ... 19, r. 6 (2) (post, p. 1091 ) ... Capital and Counties Bank Ltd. v. George Henty & Sons ( 1882 ) 7 App.Cas ... ...
  • Lewis v Daily Telegraph Ltd; Rubber Improvement Ltd v Daily Telegraph Ltd; Rubber Improvement Ltd v Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 4 April 1962
    ...for the conclusion and meaning which persons will reasonably draw from and put upon the document" (per Lord Justice Cotton, Capital and Counties Bank v. Henty in the Court of Appeal 5 Common Pleas Division, page 514, at page 54-6). An innuendo is a defamatory imputation which extrinsic fact......
  • Grubb v Bristol United Press Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 21 March 1962
    ...not be followed since that would be out of accord with many cases in this Court and the House of Lords, and in particular with Capital and Counties Bank v. Henty, Law Reports 7 Appeal Cases, 741. Those cases were not cited to the Court in Loughans' case. If and so far as is necessary, he as......
  • Jeyaretnam JB v Lee Kuan Yew
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • Invalid date
    ...made his remarks recklessly: at [60] and [61]. Bernstein v The Observer The Times (5 May 1976) (folld) Capital & Counties Bank v Henty (1882) 7 AppCas 741 (folld) Cassel & Co v Broome [1972] AC 1027 (folld) E Hulton & Co v Jones [1910] AC 20 (folld) Grubb v Bristol United Press Ltd [1963] 1......
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  • Selected Judgments
    • Jamaica
    • Telford Georges: A Legal Odyssey
    • 21 November 2008
    ...not the article conveyed the extended meaning averred, the judge applied the test laid down in Capital and Counties Bank Ltd v Henty (1882) 7 App Cas 741, at 745; that is, what meaning would the article convey to the ordinary man? This aspect of the law of libel was considered at some lengt......
  • DUTY OF TRIAL JUDGE IN DEFAMATION CASES
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition D
    • 6 February 2019
    ...do in fact convey a defamatory meaning. See Jones v. Skelton (1963) 1 W.L.R. at p. 1376 (P.C.); Capital and Counties Bank v. Henty (1882) 7 App. Cas. 741. If a publication, either standing alone, or taken in connection with other circumstances, is reason-ably capable of a libelous construct......

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