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Wason v Walter

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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1865
CourtCourt of the Queen's Bench
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28 cases
  • Branson v Bower (No.2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 15 June 2001
    ... ... Wason v Walter ( 1868 ) LR 4 QB 73 , Hunt v Star Newspaper Co Ltd [ 1908 ] 2 KB 309 , CA, Peter Walker & Son Ltd v Hodgson [ 1909 ] 1 KB ... ...
  • Cook v Alexander
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 July 1973
    ...proceedings in Parliament, It has not come up for full discussion in the Courts for over one hundred years; that is, since the case of Wason v. Walter (1868) 4 Q. B. 73. 2 In 1967 Mr. Cook was a teacher on the staff of the Court Lees approved school. It is near Godstone in Surrey. On 2nd an......
  • Reynolds v. Times Newspapers Ltd. et al., (1999) 250 N.R. 1 (HL)
    • Canada
    • 28 October 1999
    ...Q.B.D. 400 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 20]. Perera v. Peiris, [1949] A.C. 1 (P.C.), refd to. [paras. 20, 121, 139, 172]. Wason v. Walter (1868), L.R. 4 Q.B. 73, refd to. [paras. 21, Webb v. Times Publishing Co., [1960] 2 Q.B. 535, refd to. [para. 22]. Blackshaw v. Lord, [1984] Q.B. 1 (C.A.), re......
  • Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 25 April 2007
    ...of course the high importance attached to the freedom to publish fair and accurate reports on proceedings in parliament: see for example Wason v Walter [1868] LR4 QB 73per Cockburn CJ at page 89 and Cook v Alexander [1974] QB 279per Lord Denning at page 288. But what is the position where a......
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8 books & journal articles
  • Lange and Reynolds qualified privilege: Australian and English defamation law and practice.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 28 No. 2, August 2004
    • 1 August 2004
    ...defences: see, eg, Defamation Act 1996 (UK) c 31, s 15, sch 1; Defamation Act 1974 (NSW) ss 24, 25, sch 2. (30) See, eg, Wason v Walter (1868) LR 4 QB 73; Curry v Walter (1796) 1 Bos & P 525; 126 ER 1046. For a re-examination of the history of qualified privilege and widespread publicat......
  • Freedom of Speech in Australian Law: A Delicate Plant.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 25 No. 2, August 2001
    • 1 August 2001
    ...NZLR 385. (24) Opened for signature 4 November 1950, 213 UNTS 221 (entered into force 3 June 1952). (25) Loveland, above n 12, 17. (26) (1868) LR 4 QB 73 (27) Loveland, above n 12, 173. (28) Ibid 32. (29) Wason (1868) LR 4 QB 73, 93. (30) Loveland, above n 12, 92-3. (31) See, eg, Cook v Ale......
  • Legal Intimidation: A SLAPP in the Face of Democracy.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 25 No. 2, August 2001
    • 1 August 2001
    ...NZLR 385. (24) Opened for signature 4 November 1950, 213 UNTS 221 (entered into force 3 June 1952). (25) Loveland, above n 12, 17. (26) (1868) LR 4 QB 73 (27) Loveland, above n 12, 173. (28) Ibid 32. (29) Wason (1868) LR 4 QB 73, 93. (30) Loveland, above n 12, 92-3. (31) See, eg, Cook v Ale......
  • Political Libels: A Comparative Study.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 25 No. 2, August 2001
    • 1 August 2001
    ...NZLR 385. (24) Opened for signature 4 November 1950, 213 UNTS 221 (entered into force 3 June 1952). (25) Loveland, above n 12, 17. (26) (1868) LR 4 QB 73 (27) Loveland, above n 12, 173. (28) Ibid 32. (29) Wason (1868) LR 4 QB 73, 93. (30) Loveland, above n 12, 92-3. (31) See, eg, Cook v Ale......
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