Lait v Evening Standard Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 2011 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
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17 cases
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Tesla Motors Ltd and Another (Claimants/Appellants) v British Broadcasting Corporation
...right to require that limited resources be allocated fairly among litigants as a whole has been recognised in the recent case of Lait v Evening Standard Ltd [2011] 1 W.L.R. 2973, to which our attention was also drawn. 49 The judge seems to have taken the view that there was in this case no ......
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Neil McEvoy v Michael Costas Michael
...on the basis that the words have a single meaning. This is "a fiction adopted by the law for practical reasons": per Laws LJ in Lait v Evening Standard Ltd [2011] 1 W.L.R. 2973, 2983. 48 As to the ascertainment of the meaning of words, in Jeynes v News Magazines Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 130 Sir ......
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Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc v (1) Aviation News Ltd (2) Philip Tozer-Pennington
...Sweetener SAS v Asda Stores Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 609; [2011] QB 497 at para [29]. In Lait v Evening Standard [2011] EWCA Civ 859; [2011] 1 WLR 2973 at paras [42]–[453 and Waterson v Lloyd [2013] EWCA Civ 136 at para [67] Laws LJ has twice noted "the common law's increasing focus in this ar......
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Jacqueline Thompson (Claimant and Part 20 Defendant) v Mark James (First Defendant and Part 20 Claimant) Carmarthenshire County Council (Second Defendant)
...court considers "the balance to be struck between public interest and private right": Lait v Evening Standard Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 859; [2011] 1 WLR 2973 para [43]. 409 There is, of course, always a risk that a libel action may chill public discussion of matters of public interest. Mrs Thom......
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Campaigns of Vilification and Defamation
...court considers “the balance to be struck between public interest and private right”: Lait v Evening Standard Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 859; [2011] 1 WLR 2973 para [43]. 409. There is, of course, always a risk that a libel action may chill public discussion of matters of public interest . Mrs Tho......
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Tort Law
...the claim in defamation in the same case. 103 [2016] 4 SLR 977. The relevance of the English decision of Lait v Evening Standard [2011] 1 WLR 2973 on the applicability of the Jameel doctrine in Singapore was also doubted: see Lee Hsien Loong v Leong Sze Hian [2021] 4 SLR 1128 at [72]–[75]. ......