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6 Cards in this Set
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Key Case & Definition of Defamation |
- Sim v Stretch 1936
"would the words tend to lower the plaintiff in the elimination of right-thinking members of society generally" Lord Aitken |
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Authority for the statement that [it is a question of law, whether particular words are defamatory] |
Gordon v John Leng 1919 |
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Authority that Sexual Immorality is defamation |
- Morrison v Ritchie [1902] (false birth notice) - AB v XY [1917] (homosexuality) - Solomon v Simmons [1954] (illigitimacy) - Youssoupoff v Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [1934] (being a rape survivor) |
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Authority that improper, disgraceful or dishonorable conduct is defamatory |
- McLaren v Robertson (1959) "Greatest Liar inthe World" - Cutherbert v Linklater (1936) throwing a Union Jack into a public urinal - Monson v Tussauds (1894) to impute that the plaintiff had committed murder |
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Authority that unfittness for occupation or profession is defamatory |
- MacKellar v Duke of Sutherland (1859) (incompetant minister)
- McRostie v Ironside (1849) (shabby lawyer)
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Objective approach to understanding the words |
- Hunter v Ferguson (1906) - MacLeod v Newsquest (2007) |
