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Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law. The history of defamation law in England is somewhat obscure; civil actions for damages seem to have been relatively frequent as far back as the Statute of Gloucester in the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). [1]
Entertainer Liberace (pictured) was awarded £8,000 in damages for an article strongly hinting he was a homosexual.. Liberace v Daily Mirror is a 1959 English legal case in which the American entertainer Liberace sued the Daily Mirror columnist William Connor for libel after Connor, who while writing under the pen name Cassandra, [1] published an article strongly hinting that he was a homosexual.
Some common law jurisdictions distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. [26] The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting ...
A 30-year-old Chicago police officer was shot and killed overnight on the city's southwest side while heading home from work, police said Sunday. Superintendent Larry Snelling told reporters the ...
First time a UK police officer was convicted for a death in custody. Gerard Logue (8 February 1985 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) – shot while sitting in a stolen car. [140] Sean McIlvenna (17 December 1984 in Blackwatertown, Northern Ireland) – IRA member, shot after being involved in a roadside bomb attack. [140]
The Act changed a number of defamation procedures. All defamation cases under the Senior Courts Act 1981 in the Queens Bench Division, and the County Courts Act 1984, which were "tried with a jury" unless the trial requires prolonged examination of documents, are now "tried without a jury", unless the court orders otherwise.
Criminal libel is a legal term, of English origin, which may be used with one of two distinct meanings, in those common law jurisdictions where it is still used.. It is an alternative name for the common law offence which is also known (in order to distinguish it from other offences of libel) as "defamatory libel" [1] or, occasionally, as "criminal defamatory libel".
Pages in category "British police officers killed in the line of duty" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .