Ratcliffe v Evans
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1892 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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442 cases
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Intrum Justitia BV v Legal Trade Financial Services Ltd
...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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Asda Stores Ltd CL-2012000299 and Others v MasterCard Incorporated and Others
...on in proof of damage as is reasonable, having regard to the circumstances and to the nature of the acts by which the damage is done: Ratcliffe v Evans [1892] 2 QB 524, per Bowen LJ at pp 532–533; Devenish Nutrition Ltd & Ors v Sanofi-Aventis SA & Ors [2007] EWHC 2394 (Ch), per Lewison J ......
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Collins Stewart Ltd and Another v Financial Times Ltd
...particulars 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 circ......
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14 books & journal articles
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Damages
...specified by him before they may be proved and recovery granted. In the context of a defamation claim, Bowen LJ. in Ratcliffe v. Evans (1892), 2 Q.B. 524 at page 528 (C.A.) explained special damage as follows: 845 84 6 CANADIA N LIBE L AN D SLANDE R ACTION S ... [I]t is desirable to recolle......
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Management and Enforcement
...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......
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Notice of Intended Action and Limitation Defences
...(Mast.)); Johnson v. Jolliffe (1981), 26 B.C.L.R. 176 (S.C.); Robertson v. Robertson (1932), 45 B.C.R. 460 (S.C.), Ratcliffe v. Evans (1892), 2 Q.B. 524 (C.A.). Special damages for the purposes of the law of defamation have been defined as any material or temporal loss which is either a pec......
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Pleadings
...statement, courts have held that a general allegation that the plaintiff has suffered damage is sufficient. Ratcliffe v. Evans (1892), 2 Q.B. 524, per Brown LJ. at 528 (C.A.). Waterhouse v. Australian Broadcasting Corp. (1987), 87 L.R. 369. If the plaintiff pleads diminution of profits, he ......
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