Ratcliffe v Evans

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1892
Date1892
CourtCourt of Appeal

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  • Intrum Justitia BV v Legal Trade Financial Services Ltd
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 10 June 2005
    ...result of the defendant's wrong (as distinct from a risk that such might happen). That was the test established in Ratcliffe v. Evans [1892] 2 Q.B. 524, a Court of Appeal case dealing with slander. Rather the present is closer to another early case Chaplin v. Hicks [1911] 2 K.B. 786, also a......
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    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2011
  • Collins Stewart Ltd and Another v Financial Times Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 25 February 2005
    ...of claim. The former may be a matter of inference if the words were likely to produce a general loss of business". 27 In Ratcliffe v Evans [1892] 2 QB 524 Bowen LJ at p529 Bowen LJ said: "If, indeed, over and above this general damage, further particular damage is under the circumstances to......
  • Dye v Commonwealth Securities Ltd (No 2)
    • Australia
    • Full Federal Court (Australia)
    • Invalid date
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  • Management and Enforcement
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Intellectual Property Law. Second Edition
    • 15 June 2011
    ...which may well be less than $1,000: Gerber , ibid ., generally approved in Gore , above note 117. 394 Ratcliffe v. Evans , [1892] 2 Q.B. 524 at 532–33 (C.A.); Market Traders Institute Inc. v. Mahmood , 2008 CanLII 65770 (Ont. S.C.J.) [ Mahmood ]. 395 See sections E(4)(b), E(5) & E(4)(f), “R......
  • Defamation of the President of Zambia: Contextualising the Decriminalisation Debate
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    • Sabinet Southern African Public Law No. 36-2, December 2021
    • 1 December 2021
    ...3.8. 37 Fo r exceptions to this rule, see Foulger v Newcomb [1867] LR 2 Ex 327; Gray v Jones [1939] 1 All ER 798. 38 Ratclif fe v Evans [1892] 2 QB 524, 528; South Hetton Coal Co Ltd v North-Eastern News Association Ltd [1894] 1 QB 133, 145. 39 Penal Code 1931, s 38. 40 A ‘felony’ is ‘an of......
  • Table of Cases
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 10. Part III Preliminary sections
    • 30 June 2016
    ...752; …………………………........………1459 Raphael Nwabuezer v. State (1988) 4 N.W.L.R. (Pt. 86) 16……………………………............…1460 Ratcliffe v. Evans (1892) 2 Q.B. 524. …………………………………………………..........…….1293 Raymond Iheonu and Anor. v. Simeon Obiukwu (1994) 1 N.W.L.R (Pt. 322) 594…….………1518 Raymond Ozo v. T......
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    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 9 Environmental Law
    • 29 June 2016
    ...difference between the money value of plaintiff’s interest after the damage. “As to general damage, it is said in Ratchife v. Evans (1892) 2 Q.B. P. 524 per Lord Bowen, LJ. at p. 528 that damage of the kind which the law will presume to flow from the wrong complained of is known as general ......
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