Lewis v Daily Telegraph Ltd

Subject Matter

DAMAGES — Tax element — Libel — Application of Gourley's case

[1964] AC 234; [1963] 2 WLR 1063

LIBEL AND SLANDER — Justification — Suspicion of crime — Newspaper report — Statement that Fraud Squad inquiring into affairs of limited company — Ordinary meaning of words admitted to be defamatory, but justified — Proof of police inquiry in progress at date of report — Whether justification — Whether words reasonably capable of meaning plaintiffs guilty of fraud

[1963] 1 QB 340; [1964] AC 234; [1962] 3 WLR 56; [1963] 2 WLR 1063

LIBEL AND SLANDER — Pleadings — Innuendo — Not supported by extrinsic facts — Duty to withdraw unproved innuendo from jury — Not applicable if innuendo relying only on words used — Whether implied meaning should be pleaded — RSC, Ord 19, r 6 (2)

[1963] 1 QB 340; [1964] AC 234; [1962] 3 WLR 50; [1963] 2 WLR 1063

LIBEL AND SLANDER — Pleadings — Innuendo — Two causes of action based on ordinary meaning and innuendo not pleaded in the alternative — Failure to prove innuendo meaning — Whether plaintiff entitled to impute part of failed innuendo meaning to ordinary meaning

[1963] 1 QB 340; [1962] 3 WLR 50

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