Qualified Privilege - Judgment Search Results

Jameel and Others (Respondents) Vs. Wall Street Journal Europe Sprl (A ...

Court: House of Lords

..... have been fully alive to the possibility of a particular rather than a generic qualified privilege for newspaper reports where the circumstances warranted a finding of sufficient general public interest ..... be applied it was supplementing that touchstone in order to provide the protection of qualified privilege where the circumstances warranted that protection to statements published to the world at .....

Hady Hartanto Vs. Yee Kit Hong and Others

Court: Singapore Supreme Court

..... rules in this case were not to establish a specific kind of privilege apart from qualified privilege they were to show that qualified privilege arose as a defence to defamation as for mr ang s ..... will now turn to hady s two allegations that the announcement was not covered by qualified privilege and that the publication was militated by malice adoption of the executive summary and additional .....

Barr Vs. Matteo

Court: US Supreme Court

..... report by countermanding it or halting its spread giving officials below cabinet or equivalent rank qualified privilege for statements to the public would in no way hamper the internal operation of ..... to shift the line from the already extensive protection given the public officer by the qualified privilege doctrine demands the resolution of large imponderables which one might have thought would be .....

Flood (Respondent) Vs. Times Newspapers Limited (Appellant)

Court: UK Supreme Court

..... il and to his cabinet colleagues the defendants sought to establish a generic head of qualified privilege at common law in relation to political information on the basis that this would ..... of craighead differed in the result but their speeches accorded with lord nicholls conclusion that qualified privilege could protect publication of defamatory matter to the world at large where the public interest .....

Nixon Vs. Administrator of General Services

Court: US Supreme Court

..... public interest in the confidentiality of such communications from the more particularized and less qualified privilege relating to the need to protect military diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets ..... that future regulations governing public access to the materials are sufficient to protect that qualified privilege the act does indeed provide for a number of safeguards before the public .....

Butz Vs. Economou

Court: US Supreme Court

..... for misconduct he had announced in a press release the defendant claimed an absolute or qualified privilege but the trial court rejected both and the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in ..... 1958 holding as this court described it that the press release was protected by a qualified privilege but that there was evidence from which a jury could reasonably conclude that petitioner had .....

Owen Vs. City of Independence

Court: US Supreme Court

..... s immunity for governmental functions derives cannot serve as the basis for the qualified privilege respondent city claims under 1983 since sovereign immunity insulates a municipality from unconsented ..... explains why that doctrine could not have served as the basis for the qualified privilege respondent city claims under 1983 first because sovereign immunity insulates the municipality from .....

Kuldip Nayar Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR2006SC3127; JT2006(8)SC1; 2006(8)SCALE257; (2006)7SCC1

..... conclusion that the principle of secrecy in section 94 enacts a qualified privilege in favour of a voter not to be compelled to disclose ..... each state emphasizes that person who is elected must first be qualified as a representative of the state in question if the ..... residence is a concept that may also be transitory even when qualified by the word ordinarily the word resident would not result .....

Manik Lal Bhowmik Vs. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

Court: Kolkata

..... the letter of dismissal of the plaintiff can be said to be protected by absolute privilege or qualified privilege 37 the enquiry proceeding was initiated by the defendant by issuing the charge sheet ..... at public meetings when the defendant sets up the plea that the publication has a qualified privilege the plaintiff must prove the existence of an express malice which may be inferred either .....

P. Bhaskaran and ors. Vs. Additional Secretary, Agricultural (Co-opera ...

Court: Kerala

Reported in: AIR1988Ker75; [1989(58)FLR78]; (1988)IILLJ307Ker

..... to do it e g self help self defence thej defences of fair comment and qualified privilege lastly liberty may be created by the parties themselves e g consent or volenti non ..... in the present circumstances 11 rule 200 preserves rights saves privileges does the word emolument qualify only privilege or qualify both the words right and privilege it is therefore necessary to understand the true scope .....