Kelly CB said: ‘[t]o impute to an architect employed in the restoration of an ancient church that he has no experience in the work in which he has been employed is itself a libel upon the architect in the way of his profession or calling . . and further to write of an architect that by his acting in the work in question the masonry of an ancient gem of art will be ignorantly tampered with is in itself libellous.’
Judges:
Kelly CB
Citations:
(1879) 41 LTNS 588
Cited by:
Cited – Dee v Telegraph Media Group Ltd QBD 28-Apr-2010
The newspaper sought summary judgment in its defence of the defamation claim. The article labelled the claimant as the world’s worst professional tennis player. The paper said he had no prospect of succeeding once the second article in the same . .
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Defamation
Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.408773
