A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury

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W. Green and Sons, 1894 - Počet stran: 319
 

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Strana 186 - ... provided further, that nothing in this section contained shall be deemed or construed to limit or abridge any privilege now by law existing, or to protect the publication of any matter not of public concern, and the publication of which is not for the public benefit.
Strana 127 - Neither party, witness, counsel, jury or judge, can be put to answer civilly or criminally for words spoken in office.
Strana 185 - A fair and accurate report published in any newspaper of the proceedings of a public meeting, or (except where neither the public nor any newspaper reporter is admitted) of any meeting of a vestry, town council, school board, board of guardians...
Strana 182 - Liberty of criticism must be allowed, or we should have neither purity of taste nor of morals. Fair discussion is essentially necessary to the truth of history and the advancement of science. That publication, therefore, I shall never consider as a libel which has for its object, not to injure the reputation of any individual, but to correct misrepresentations of fact, to refute sophistical reasoning, to expose a vicious taste in literature, or to censure what is hostile to morality.
Strana 186 - For the purposes of this section ' public meeting ' shall mean any meeting bona fide and lawfully held for a lawful purpose, and for the furtherance or discussion of any matter of public concern, whether the admission thereto be general or restricted.
Strana 185 - ... authority formed or constituted under the provisions of any Act of Parliament, or of any committee appointed by any of the abovementioned bodies, or of any meeting of any Commissioners authorised to act by letters patent, Act of Parliament, warrant under the Royal Sign Manual or other lawful warrant or authority, select committees of either House of Parliament, justices...
Strana 186 - ... can show that the defendant has refused to insert in the newspaper in which the report containing the matter complained of appeared a reasonable letter or statement of explanation or contradiction by or on behalf of such plaintiff or prosecutor.
Strana 223 - whether the whole or any part of the said words are of and " concerning the pursuer, and are false and calumnious, and " were maliciously inserted or caused to be inserted in the " said paper or pleading, to the loss, injury, and damage of

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