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Media - From: 1930 To: 1959
This page lists 4 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
Tolley v J S Fry and Sons Ltd [1930] 1 KB 467
1930
CA
Greer LJ
Defamation, Media
The plaintiff, a famous amateur golfer, had been shown in an advert by the defendants with a bar of their chocolate in his pocket. He claimed that this suggested that he had taken money for the advert for the endorsement, and that this was defamatory. He brought evidence to show that this is what people had thought. The defendants were shown to have been made aware that this interpretation might apply. Held: Greer LJ said: "Words are not defamatory, however much they may damage a man in the eyes of a section of the community unless they also amount to disparagement of his reputation in the eyes of right thinking men generally. To write or say of a man something that would disparage him in the eyes of a particular section of the community but will not affect his reputation in the eyes of the average right thinking man is not actionable within the law of defamation."
1 Citers
The Attorney General of Quebec v The Attorney General of Canada and Others; PC 9-Feb-1932 - [1932] UKPC 7; Appeal No. 84 of 1931
Rex v Davies, Ex parte Delbert-Evans and sub nom Delbert-Evans v Davies and Watson [1945] 2 All ER 167 DC; [1945] 1 KB 435
1945
KBD
Humphreys, Oliver JJ
Media, Contempt of Court
Humphreys J said that there was ample authority for saying that "During the time between the conviction of the accused person on the indictment and his appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal, the case is not ended at all, but is still sub judice, or pending, to use the expression which had been used in many cases in many other judgments."
Oliver J said that contempt can be committed at any time until the case is ended, and that it is not ended until the hearing and decision of an appeal, if there had been an appeal.
1 Citers
In re de Beaujeu's Application; ChD 1949 - [1949] 1 All ER 439; [1949] Ch 230