Stuart v Bell

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1891
CourtCourt of Appeal
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140 cases
  • Goh Chok Tong; JB Jeyaretnam
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1984
  • Doreen Hodge Claimant v Cable & Wireless (West Indies) Ltd George Kentish Defendants [ECSC]
    • Anguilla
    • High Court (Saint Christopher, Nevis And Anguilla)
    • 6 February 2006
    ...to him. Counsel on both sides are ad idem in submitting that the test in determining whether such a duty existed is as stated in Stuart -v- Bell14 thus: "would the great mass of right minded men in the position of the Defendant have considered it their duty under the circumstances to make t......
  • Maidstone Pte Ltd v Takenaka Corp
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 10 April 1992
    ... ... or furtherance of his own interests and that the receiving party had a legitimate interest in the subject matter of the publication: Stuart v Bell 2 and Watt v Longsdon .1 The plaintiffs have not contended in their submissions that there is no common interest; rather, they contend ... ...
  • Neethling v Du Preez and Others; Neethling v the Weekly Mail and Others
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...1986 (3) SA 568 (A) at 586-9; Iyman v Natal Witness Printing & Publishing Co (Pty) Ltd 1991 (4) SA 677 (N) H at 682A; Stuart v Bell [1891] 2 QB 341 at 346, 351; Gatley on Libel and Slander 8th ed paras 441, 444-6, 448-9, 452, 535, 537, 540-1, 566; Adam v Ward [1917] AC 309 (HL) at 334; Ehmk......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Express Malice
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Canadian Libel and Slander Actions
    • 17 June 2004
    ...of the expression. Wade and Wells Co. v. Laing (1957), 11 D.L.R. (2d) 276 per Sheppard J.A. at 28283 (B.C.C.A.), citing Stuart v. Bell, [1891] 2 Q.B. 341 per Lindley LJ. at 349: 33 2 CANADIA N LIBE L AN D SLANDE R ACTION S But the question still remains whether the defendant was not under a......
  • Foundations of Charity Law in the New Welfare State
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 62-3, May 1999
    • 1 May 1999
    ...on Civil and Political Rights.79 Under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.80 [1998] 3 WLR 862.81 Stuart vBell [1891] 2 QB 341, 346 (CA), per Lindley LJ, drawing upon Toogood vSpyring (1834) 1CM & R 181, 193, per Parke B.82 n 80 above, 909.The Modern Law Review [Vol. 62346......
  • MALICE USUALLY PLEADED IN DEFAMATION
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition M
    • 6 February 2019
    ...6 R. 67 at p. 72, Lord Herschell said: Malice means making use of the occasion for some indirect purpose". Again, in Stuart v. Bell (1891) 2 Q.B. 341 at p. 351, the point was stated by Lindley, L.J. as follows: - "Malice, in fact, is not confined to personal spite and ill will, but it inclu......
  • PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION AND PRIVILEGED OCCASION, DISTINCTION BETWEEN
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon’s Judicial Dictionary of Nigerian Law. First edition P
    • 6 February 2019
    ...Stuart v. Bell (1891) 2 Q.B. 341, Lopes, L.J., explained the rules governing qualified privileges as follows; "A confusion is often made between a privileged communication and a privileged occasion. It is for the jury to say whether a communication was privileged; but the question whether a......

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