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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]
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.
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 former police officer has been sacked for sending offensive WhatsApp messages to colleagues, a police force said. Former PC Samuel Thacker, a response officer based in Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
According to the review of the third edition of this book in volume 16 of Law Quarterly Review, published in 1900, the Daily News called it "the best modern book on the law of libel", the Law Times called it "the most scientific of all our law books" and said that "in its new dress" it was "secure of an appreciative professional welcome", and ...
A Cambridgeshire police officer has been dismissed following a misconduct hearing. PC James Roper was sacked after a disciplinary panel found he had breached standards of professional behaviour by ...
Keith-Smith v Williams is a 2006 English libel case that confirmed that existing libel laws applied to internet discussion. [1]It was important because it was seen as the first UK internet libel case that represented two individuals rather than one party being an Internet Service Provider, [2] and was the first British case involving a successful prosecution of an individual poster within a ...
A police officer has been convicted of several offences, including controlling and coercive behaviour, following a five-week trial. Former Avon and Somerset PC Mitchell Curtis, 34, was found ...