Turner v Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1950
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • Boston v W. S. Bagshaw & Sons (Note)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 27 April 1966
    ...had misdirected them on other matters. He also suggested that the Judge ought to have followed a dictum of Lord Porter in Turner v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd., 1950, I All England Reports, p. 455. The Judge, he said, ought to have put each piece of evidence of malice to the jury: and......
  • Kenny D. Anthony Claimant v Vaughn Lewis Defendant [ECSC]
    • St Lucia
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Lucia)
    • 14 May 2007
    ...in denouncing what he disagreed with, he was entitled to dip his pen in gall for the purposes of legitimate criticism. Turner vs. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd [1950] 1All E.R. 449…applied". 83 InReynolds vs. Times Newspapers (supra) at page 8 of the decision of Lord Nicholls Birkenhead,......
  • Review Publishing Company Ltd v Lee Hsien Loong
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 7 October 2009
    ...(refd) Tun Datuk Patinggi Haji Abdul-Rahman Ya'kub v Bre Sdn Bhd [1996] 1 MLJ 393 (refd) Turner v Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd [1950] 1 All ER 449 (folld) Workers' Party v Tay Boon Too [1974-1976] SLR (R) 204; [1972-1974] SLR 621 (refd) Wright Norman v Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd [......
  • Lee Hsien Loong v Review Publishing Co Ltd and Another and Another Suit
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 23 September 2008
    ...provided they are published bona fide and are fairly relevant to the accusations made. In Turner v Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures [1950] 1 All ER 449, the principle was enunciated as follows at p There is an analogy between the criminal law of self-defence and a man’s right to defend himself ......
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  • DUMBO & ORS V. IDUGBOE
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1983 Cases reported in 1983
    • 22 November 2022
    ...which they leave the matter But I find assistance in this difficulty from Turner otherwise Robertson) v. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures (1950) 1 All ER 449 to which we have been referred by counsel for the plaintiffs and in particular from the following passage in the speech of Lord Porter wh......
  • Express Malice
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Canadian Libel and Slander Actions
    • 17 June 2004
    ...67, per Gould J. at 73 (B.C.S.C), approving the following passage from the judgment of Lord Oaksey in Turner v. MGM Pictures, Ltd., [1950] 1 All E.R. 449 at 47071: There is, it seems to me, an analogy between the criminal law of self defence and a man's right to defend himself against writt......
  • Fair comment, judges and politics in Hong Kong.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 27 No. 1, April 2003
    • 1 April 2003
    ...a fair man'. One makes the same assumption about Lord Keith's use of the phrase 'any man' in Telnikoff [1992] 2 AC 343, 354. (30) [1950] 1 All ER 449, 461 (31) The epithet 'fair-minded' qualifies 'man' in the Court of Appeal's decision in the same case: Telnikoff [1991] 1 QB 102 (Lloyd LJ).......

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