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Ingredients Of Defamation Flashcards

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Ingredients

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Defamatory
Statement may refer to C
Statement must be published

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Defamation is lowering a person’s reputation in the estimation of right- thinking people

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Sim v Stretch

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Causing a person to be shunned and avoided

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Youssoupoff v MGM

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Exposing a person to hatred, contempt or ridicule

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Parmiter v Coupland

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Implies failings in professional trade

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Drummond-Jackson v British Medical Assoc.

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Not judged by intention but by impact on right-thinking member of society

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Hartt v Newsgroup Newspaper Publishing

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Courts not concerned about what a section of society will think

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Byrne v Dean

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Homosexuality can still be defamatory

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R v Bishop

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Statement need not impute immorality

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Youssoupoff v MGM

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Derision of appearance is defamatory

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Berkoff v Burchill

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Defamation distinguished from words of abuse

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Hillard v Constable

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True innuendos capable of beating the alleged meaning to a reasonable person on the particular facts

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Tolley v JS Fry and Sons Ltd

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D intent as to statement irrelevant

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Hulton & Co v Jones

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Sloppy reporting irrelevant

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Newstead v London Express Newspaper Ltd

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Photo likeness not enough for liability

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O’Shea v MGN

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Must be pointer to C in a group

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Knuppfer v London Express Newspaper Ltd

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Small group may allow claim

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Aspro Travel v Owners Abroad Group Plc

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D liable if reasonably foreseeable third party would see statement

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Theaker v Richardson

19
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Single Publication Rule Authority

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Loutchansky v Times Newspapers

S8 DA 2013

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When is D liable for repetition

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Authorised/requested republication
Intended republication
Informed someone who is of moral duty to repeat
Replication was probable result

21
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Where is repeator liable

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Is is an editor, author or publisher

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