Watt v Longsdon
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1930 |
| Year | 1930 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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85 cases
- AT Dunia (Miri) Sdn Bhd v Sayu-Joe Curio (JV) Sdn Bhd
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Maidstone Pte Ltd v Takenaka Corp
......The plaintiffs rely on a dictum of Greer LJ in Watt v Longsdon 1 at p 293 which is set out below, as authority for this proposition. The law on qualified privilege . The law treats the ......
- K Surjit Kaur a/p Gean Kartar Singh v Belinda Ghoi Shuk Yee
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Seaga (Edward) v Harper (Leslie)
...requirement of reciprocity, regarded as the duty-interest test, in order to attract the defence of qualified privilege was clarified in Watt v. Longsdon [1930] 1 K.B. 130. The defendant a director of a company received a letter from an employee containing gross charges of immoral conduct, ......
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Fair Comment
...to S.C.C. denied, [19911 1 S.C.R. vii, per Macfarlane J.A. at 36566: 35 8 CANADIA N LIBE L AN D SLANDE R ACTION S Watt v. Longsdon, [1930] 1 K.B. 130 at 15455 (C.A.) is cited by the plaintiff. This passage from the judgment of Greer LJ. draws the distinction between honest belief and malice......
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OCCASIONS OF QUALIFIED PRIVILEGE
...person may, without incurring legal liability, make statements about another which are defamatory and in fact untrue. (Watt v. Longsdon (1930) 1 K.B. 130, 142 (C.A.). On such occasions a man, stating what he believes to be the truth about another, is protected in so doing, provided he makes......