R v Wicks

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1936
Year1936
CourtCourt of Appeal

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8 cases
  • Goldsmith v Pressdram Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
    ...vilification, the public interest required that criminal proceedings be brought against the respondents (post, pp. 92G, 93B). Rex v. Wicks [1936] 1 All E.R. 384, C.C.A. applied. Per curiam. If it be the case that there is no defence available to the respondents in criminal proceedings, it c......
  • R v Wells Street Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Deakin
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 10 April 1979
    ...to disturb or provoke a breach of the peace (See R. v. Labouchere (1884) 12 Q.B.D.320 per Lord Coleridge C.J. at p. 322). In R. v. Wicks [1936] 1 All E.R.384, du Parcq J. as he then was, delivering judgment of the Court of Appeal said "…a criminal prosecution for libel ought not to be insti......
  • Hilliard v Penfield Enterprises Ltd
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 2 March 1990
    ...and to the earlier reports of R. -v- Ensor (1887) 3 T.L.R. 366 and of Reg. -v- Labouchere(1884) L.R. 12 Q.B. 320 and of R. -v- Wicks 1936 1 All E.R. 384 and also to the later report of Gleaves -v- Deakin & Ors. 1979 2 W.L.R. 665. Having considered these same English authorities other than ......
  • Mr Andrew Bridgen v Mr Matt Hancock
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • 14 April 2025
    ...Newman prays in aid a mid-Victorian criminal libel statute, a number of nineteenth century cases and the criminal appeal case of R v Wicks [1936] 1 All ER 384 in this connection. I was not assisted by these in my task of applying the Defamation Act 2013. Mr Hancock has not pleaded a truth d......
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