The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1993] AC 534
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL APPELLANT AND TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD. AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS
1992 Dec. 7,
8,
9,
10;
1993 Feb. 18
1993 Feb. 18
Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Griffiths, Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Browne-Wilkinson and Lord Woolf
Defamation
— Parties
— Corporation
— Publication relating to administration of local authority's superannuation fund
— Publication insinuating maladministration of pension funds
— Balance between public interest in freedom of speech and protection of authority's reputation
— Whether local authority entitled to maintain action in defamation