Speight v Gosnay

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1891
Year1891
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Mamadou Sakho v World Anti-Doping Agency
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 11 February 2020
    ...trial (as opposed to during a preliminary trial on the issue of meaning). Referring to the reliance placed in Slipper and in McManus on Speight v Gosnay (1891) 60 LJQB 231, Mr Santos submitted that determining the meaning of the Articles in this case would “ alter the approach adopted by t......
  • Weld-Blundell v Stephens
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 13 May 1920
  • Slipper v British Broadcasting Corporation
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 May 1990
    ...this decision and contend that it is a rule of law binding in defamation cases and that the exceptions to it based on the decision in Speight v Gosnay (post) have no effect in the light of the House of Lords decision in Weld-Blundell v Stephens which I will consider in detail hereafter. One......
  • Anna Turley v Unite the Union
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 19 December 2019
    ...and severally liable Watts v Times Newspapers Ltd [1997] QB 650, 670f-h per Hirst LJ; Monir v Wood [2018] EWHC 3525 (QB) [135]. 85 In Speight v Gosnay (1891) 60 LJQB 231, the Court of Appeal identified four ways in which a person could be liable for the republication of a defamatory stat......
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