Cases

Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others (No.3)

Issue

(1) Whether the books were published on an occasion of qualified privilege at common law as re-formulated by the House of Lords in Reynolds v Times Newspapers [2001] AC 127;

(2) Whether passages of the books were published on an occasion of qualified privilege pursuant to section 15(1) and Part 1(2) of Schedule 1 to the Defamation Act 1996, being a fair and accurate report of legal proceedings;

(3) Whether the relevant passages of the books were published on an occasion of qualified privilege pursuant to section 15(1) and Part 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the Defamation Act 1996 being a fair and accurate report of parliamentary proceedings in public;

(4) Whether in addition to the statutory defences the other words complained of were matters closely related to the proceedings which the public were entitled to know and therefore protected by qualified privilege at common law.

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