Merivale v Carson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1887
Year1887
CourtCourt of Appeal
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4 books & journal articles
  • Lange and Reynolds qualified privilege: Australian and English defamation law and practice.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 28 No. 2, August 2004
    • 1 August 2004
    ...(91) Ibid 388 (Hunt AJA). (92) Steven Rares, 'Can I Say That?' (2004) 25 Australian Bar Review 45, 47. (93) See, eg, Merivale v Carson (1887) 20 QBD 275, 281 (Lord Esher MR), 283-4 (Bowen LJ). See also Branson v Bower [2002] QB 737, 741 (Eady (94) Sally Walker, 'Lange v ABC: The High Court ......
  • UK DEFAMATION ACT 2013
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...Defamation Act 2013 (c 26) (UK) s 3(6). 29[2010] UKSC 53; [2011] 1 AC 852. 30[2000] 3 HKLRD 418 at [41]. 31 See, eg, Merivale v Carson(1888) 20 QBD 275 at 281, per Lord Esher. 32 After Joseph v Spiller[2010] UKSC 53; [2011] 1 AC 852, the defence became known as honest comment. 33 At common ......
  • What Conversation? Free Speech and Defamation Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 73-5, September 2010
    • 1 September 2010
    ...[2001] EMLR 31;BritishChiropractic AssociationvSingh [2010]EWCACiv 350; Defamation Act1952(UK), s 6.119 See eg Merivale vCars on (1887) 20 QBD 275.120 See n 17 above.121 See eg Sullivan,ibid.122 See eg CurtisPublishing vButts 388 US 130 (1967).123 See eg Sullivan, n 17 above, 279^280.124 St......
  • Fair comment, judges and politics in Hong Kong.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 27 No. 1, April 2003
    • 1 April 2003
    ...1 SCR 1067, 1099 (Dickson J) (see below n 106 and accompanying text). (27) Defamation Act 1974 (NSW) s 32. (28) Merivale v Carson (1887) 20 QBD 275,281. (29) This is one of those situations in which one should appreciate the ambiguity of the English language, an ambiguity which here could h......

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