Lopes LJ said: ‘The effect of the occasion being privileged is to render it incumbent upon the plaintiff to prove malice, that is, to shew some indirect motive not connected with the privilege, so as to take the statement made by the defendant out of the protection afforded by the privileged occasion. This he may do either by extrinsic evidence, by which I mean something outside the statement itself, or by intrinsic evidence, by which I mean something contained in the statement itself.’
Judges:
Lopes LJ
Citations:
[1895] 2 QB 156
Cited by:
Appeal from – Neville v Fine Arts Company 1897
When establishing a defamatory meaning in the words complained of ‘it is not enough to say that by some person or another the words might be understood in a defamatory sense.’ (Lord Halsbury LC) . .
Cited – Beech v Freeson QBD 1972
The defendant, a Member of Parliament, wrote a letter to the Law Society with a copy to the Lord Chancellor, saying that he had been specifically requested by a constituent to refer the plaintiffs’ solicitors’ firm to the Law Society for . .
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Defamation
Updated: 04 May 2022; Ref: scu.539181