Goldsmith v Pressdram Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1976 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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8 cases
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Royal Gazette Ltd v Attorney General
...the Respondents The following cases were referred to in the judgment: Ghani v JonesELR [1970] 1 QB 696 Goldsmith v Pressdram LtdUNK [1977] 2 All ER 557 Karuma v RELR [1955] AC 197 British Steel Corp v Granada TelevisionUNK [1981] 1 All ER 417 Senior v HoldsworthUNK [1975] 2 All ER 1009 Maha......
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R. v. Stevens (B.G.), (1995) 100 Man.R.(2d) 81 (CA)
...this stage in the evolution of criminal libel since it has already been admirably conducted by Wien, J., in Goldsmith v. Pressdram Ltd. , [1977] Q.B. 83,90. Suffice it to say that the notion that a tendency to provoke a breach of the peace is an essential ingredient of the criminal offence ......
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R v Wells Street Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Deakin
...the prosecution of a newspaper for criminal libel a judge has to consider whether the public interest requires a prosecution (See Goldsmith v. Pressdram Ltd. [1977] 1 Q.B. 83 per Wien J.: Law of Libel Amendment Act 1888 section 8) but examining justices are not charged with the responsibili......
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Hilliard v Penfield Enterprises Ltd
...Ltd.| Citations: LAW OF LIBEL AMENDMENT ACT 1888 S8 GALLAGHER V INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS UNREP HIGH FINLAY 3.7.78 GOLDSMITH V PRESSDRAM 1976 3 WLR 191 R V ENSOR 1887 3 TLR 366 REG V LABOUCHERE 1884 LR 12 QB 320 R V WICKS 1936 1 AER 384 GLEAVES V DEAKIN & ORS 1979 2 WLR 665 DEFAMATION ACT 19......
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2 books & journal articles
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Defamation of the President of Zambia: Contextualising the Decriminalisation Debate
...Hob 215; R v Summers (1665) 1 Lev 139; R v Saunders (1670) T Raym 201; R v Holbrook (1878) 4 QBD 42, 46. 61 Gold smith v Pressdram Ltd [1977] QB 83. 62 Con stitution of Zambia 1991, as amended by Act no 2 of 2016, Article 110. 63 Compare poll statistics from previous elections (available at......
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Criminal Defamation in the Commonwealth - a Case for Abolition
...Books,1992), p. 46. [4] The Law Commission, Consultation Paper No 84, HMSO 1982. [5] Sections 4 and 5. [6] See Goldsmith v. Pressdram [1977] QB 83, Gleaves v. Deakin [1980] AC 477 and Desmonde v. Thorpe [1982] 3 All ER None of these cases have gone to trial because either the plaintiffs fai......