Lonrho Plc and Others v Fayed and Others (No 5)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date22 July 1993
Judgment citation (vLex)[1993] EWCA Civ J0722-8
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date22 July 1993
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189 cases
  • Joseph Pacini v Dow Jones & Company Incorporated
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • 3 July 2024
    ...The judge was unable to find that the “nub” or reality of the claims was based on damage to reputation only. Moreover, the case of Lonrho plc v Fayed (No 5) [1993] 1 WLR 1489 (where it was held that any action claiming damages for injury to reputation had to be brought in defamation) did n......
  • Kapt (B) Haji Mohamad bin Ismail v Perwira Affin Bank Berhad (No 2)
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2001
  • Alaedeen Sicri v Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 21 December 2020
    ...seem to me that there remains a good deal to be said today for the principle, identified long ago by the Court of Appeal in Lonrho v Fayed (No 5) [1993] 1 WLR 1489, that reputational damages are only available in defamation and limited other torts which are premised on the falsity of the in......
  • Mr Rustem Magdeev v Mr Dimitry Tsvetkov
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 20 June 2019
    ...afford no defence”. He went on at page 1252 to say this: “ I do not think, therefore, that the decision of the Court of Appeal, in Lonrho Plc. v. Fayed is a decision that in circumstances such as these the court has no alternative but to strike out the statement of claim … I am, therefore, ......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...of applying for interrogatories) were recoverable (British Motor Trade Association v Salvadori[1949] Ch 556; Lonrho plc v Fayed (No 5)[1993] 1 WLR 1489; and R+V Versicherung AG v Risk Insurance and Reinsurance Solutions SA[2006] EWHC 42 (Comm)). The plaintiff had to serve interrogatories on......
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...that is, it is not limited to a precise calculation of the amount of actual pecuniary loss actually proved: Lonrho plc v Fayed (No 5)[1993] 1 WLR 1489 at 1494. His Honour took into consideration three categories of damages as a consequence of the defendants' conspiracy: (a) the expenses inc......
  • Never say 'never' for the truth can hurt: defamatory but true statements in the tort of simple conspiracy.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 31 No. 2, August 2007
    • 1 August 2007
    ...impact on the public interest or serious harm to others would result if the defendants withheld those facts about the plaintiffs. (1) [1994] 1 All ER 188. (2) Ibid 192 (Dillon LJ). It was also alleged that the defendants financed an action brought against the plaintiffs by a third (3) Ibid ......

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