Cases

ICN Photonics Ltd v Patterson

Comment

The case demonstrates the Court of Appeal's increasing willingness to get involved in rulings on meaning. If there ever was a "self-denying ordinance" (see Cruise v Express) restricting appeals from rulings on meaning, the combination of this decision and that in Gillick v Brook Advisory Centres has extinguished it. The appellate court is apparently now willing to entertain appeals in relation to both inclusive and exclusive rulings on meaning subject only to their being satisfied that the judge was wrong.

Areas of work

Defamation
Malicious Falsehood

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