Cases

Brent Walker Group Plc v Time Out Ltd

Comment

The point was novel but Parker LJ was particularly dismissive of the defendants' contention, pointing out that if true it would lead to absurd and illogical results. If two newspapers published partial and unfair reports of proceedings, one adding defamatory comment and the other not, the former but not the latter would have a defence. At the time of this decision, Reynolds privilege had yet to be recognised. How, if at all, the defence of fair comment on a privileged report applies in a Reynolds case is a question not so far resolved.

Areas of work

Defamation

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