Preface
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Table of Statutory Instruments
Table of Civil Procedure Rules
Table of Practice Directions
Table of National Legislation
Table of European and International Conventions and Treaties
Table of European Directives
Table of European Regulations
PART ONE THE DEFAMATORY STATEMENT
1. INTRODUCTION
1. Introductory
2. Defamation and the Law of Torts
2. DEFAMATORY IMPUTATIONS
1. What is Defamatory
2. Standard of Opinion
3. Instances of Defamatory Imputations
3. The Form AND Meaning OF THE DEFAMATORY STATEMENT
1. Form
2. The Distinction Between Libel and Slander
3. Interpretation
4. SLANDERS ACTIONABLE PER SE
1. General
2. Criminal Offences
3. Words Imputing a Contagious Disease
4. Words Calculated to Disparage in any Office, Profession, Calling, Trade or Business
5. Words Imputing Unchastity to Female
5. SLANDER ACTIONABLE ONLY ON PROOF OF SPECIAL DAMAGE
6. PUBLICATION
1. General Principles
2. Publication
3. Particular Publishers and Distributors
4. Republication and Repetition
7. IDENTITY OF THE PERSON DEFAMED
1. Reference to the Claimant
2. Intention to Refer to Claimant
3. Claimant Member of a Class
8. PARTIES: WHO MAY SUE OR BE SUED
1. General
2. Diplomatic Agents and Foreign Sovereigns
3. Foreign Subjects and Companies
4. Bankrupts and Insolvent Companies
5. Minors
6. Married Persons
7. Deceased Persons and Representatives
8. Mentally Disordered and Drunken Persons
9. Corporations and Governmental Bodies
10. Trade Unions
11. Firms
12. Unincorporated Associations
13. Vicarious Liability
9. REMEDIES
I. Compensatory (General) Damages
2. Aggravated Damages
3. Exemplary Damages
4. Multiple Parties
5. Injunctions
PART TWO DEFENCES
10. DEFENCES: GENERAL
11. JUSTIFICATION (TRUTH)
12. FAIR COMMENT
1. Introduction
2. Comment
3. A Matter of Public Interest
4. Concurrent Tortfeasors
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PART THREE OTHER CAUSES OF ACTION AND RELATED MATTERS
PART FOUR THE A CTION