Denvir v Taylor

JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
Judgment Date01 January 1936
Date01 January 1936
CourtCourt of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
[C. A., N.I.]
Denvir
and
Taylor

Privileged communication -Allegation by expert - Truth of allegation -Evidence of malice.

An engineering expert supervising the maintenance of an electrical plant made certain allegations in a letter (the publication of which was admitted to have been privileged) with respect to an electrician employed in connection with the said plant, and on the electrician bringing an action for libel the said allegations were found by the jury to have been untrue in substance and in fact and to have been written with express malice. Held, upon appeal, that the fact that the defendant was an expert and that the allegations were found to have been untrue did not in itself establish the presence of...

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