‘when you are dealing with some legal decisions which all rest on a certain principle, you may extend the area of those decisions to meet cases which fall within the same principles; but where we are dealing with such an artificial law as this law of slander, which rests on the most artificial distinctions, all you can do is, I think, to say that if the action is to be extended to a class of cases in which it has not hitherto been held to lie, it is the Legislature that must make the extension and not the Court”.
Judges:
Lord Herschell
Citations:
[1892] 1 QB 797
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Defamation
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.220014