Rook v Fairrie

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1941
CourtCourt of Appeal
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13 cases
  • Dingle v Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 May 1962
    ...what is contained in the speeches of my noble and learned friends, Lord Morton of Henryton and Lord Denning, with regard to the case of Rook v. Fairrie [1941] 1 K.B. 507. I do not know whether Pearson, J. in this case did allow his assessment to be influenced by what may be called the princ......
  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 23 February 1972
  • Rogers v Nationwide News Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 11 September 2003
    ...35Miller v Jennings (1954) 92 CLR 190 at 196 per Dixon CJ and Kitto J. 36 Bray v Ford [1896] AC 44 at 52-53 per Lord Herschell. 37 Rook v Fairrie [1941] 1 KB 507 at 516 per Sir Wilfrid Greene MR. 38 (1951) 82 CLR 497 at 516. 39 (1962) 107 CLR 308 at 321-328. See also Miller v Jennings ......
  • Lewis v Australian Capital Territory
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 5 August 2020
    ...(Lord Millett), 356 [148] (Lord Scott). 291 Shaw v Kovac [2017] 1 WLR 4773 at 4790-4792 [78]–[84]; [2018] 2 All ER 71 at 87-89. 292 Rook v Fairrie [1941] 1 KB 507 at 515. 293 Hook v Cunard Steamship Co Ltd [1953] 1 WLR 682 at 686; [1953] 1 All ER 1021 at 1024. 294 Associated Newspapers......
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  • Damages in Cyberlibel
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Cyberlibel: Information Warfare in the 21st Century? Part III
    • 15 June 2011
    ...386 (H.L.); quoted by Lord Diplock in Broome v. Cassell & Co., [1972] A.C. 1027 at 1125 (H.C.) Lord Justice Greene in Rook v. Fairrie. [1941] 1 K.B. 507 at 515, 516 (C.A.) said as follows: “. . . in a libel action the damages awarded are, for the most 182 ✴ Cyberlibel: Information Warfare i......

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