Watkin v Hall

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1865
CourtCourt of the Queen's Bench
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  • Abdul Khalid @ Khalid Jafri bin Bakar Shah v Party Islamse Malaysia and Others
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2001
  • Ganley v RTE
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 15 February 2017
    ...as opposed to the innuendo relied upon which I have set out earlier in this judgment. Brembridge...was considered by Blackburn J. in Watkin v. Hall (1868) LR 3 QB 396, 402. This was a slander action, the facts of which are unimportant. The court was concerned with the pleadings, and Blackb......
  • Grubb v Bristol United Press Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 21 March 1962
    ...be proved against them at the trial. 21 The 1852 Act elevated the status of the innuendo, so that it became a separate cause of action. Watkin v. Hall, 3 Queen's Bench, 396, and per Lord Atkin in Sim. v. Stretch, 52 Times Law Reports, 669. In the former case, at page 401, Mr Justice Blackbu......
  • Lewis v Daily Telegraph Ltd; Rubber Improvement Ltd v Daily Telegraph Ltd; Rubber Improvement Ltd v Associated Newspapers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • Invalid date
    ... ... (See Sim v. Stretch F28 and Watkin v. Hall. F29 ... Unless the court otherwise permits, any payment into court referable to an innuendo must be a separate payment ... The words of the ... ...
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1 books & journal articles
  • Justification
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Canadian Libel and Slander Actions
    • 17 June 2004
    ...justify by proving the fact of the murder." Douglas v. Tucker, [1952] S.C.R. 275, per Cartwright J at 285, citing Watkin v. Hall (1868), L.R. 3 Q.B. 396, where Blackburn J. explains the rationale for this principle at 401: As great an injury may accrue from the wrongful repetition as from t......

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