action for slander

In the meantime this action for slander was a bore!

Diestel wrote two violent tirades against the count, who brought an action for slander and won it.

The whole thing sounded like an opinion uttered by a cautious person mindful of actions for slander.

It would be monstrous if a corporation could maintain no action for slander of title through which they lost a great deal of money.

He hesitated and said: "You know, I've contemplated the possibility of an action for slander!

'Then I suggest that you keep your tongue, unless you wish to render yourself liable to an action for slander.'

So bitter was the animosity between these two men that Hopkins commenced an action for slander against Ward, putting damages at £40,000.

When her husband, James Sherwood, was alive, the twain had actually brought three such actions for slander, against people who had called Grace a witch.

The importance of the distinction is that there can be no action for slander unless the plantiff has suffered damage that can be calculated in monetary terms.

Legislators in countries using the Westminster system, such as the United Kingdom, are protected from civil action for slander and libel by parliamentary immunity whilst they are in the House.

The forewoman of the first jury was one Eliza Barnes, whom Sobel suggests might well have been the same Elizabeth Barnes whom the Sherwoods had brought action for slander against, eight years before.

Following a bitter contest Blundell brought an action for slander against Rosbotham for making "false statements of fact in relation to the plaintiff's character and conduct for the purpose of affecting his return to parliament".

The publication of a statement that conveys the imputation, that a person has a contagious or infectious disease, does not give rise to a cause of action for slander, unless the publication causes the person special damage.

In 1937 Lambert brought an action for slander against Sir Cecil Levita, after Levita suggested to a friend that Lambert was unfit to be on the board of the British Film Institute.

However, the section then provides that in an action for slander made actionable by that section, a plaintiff may not be awarded more costs than damages, unless the judge certifies that "there was reasonable ground for bringing the action".

Although it is unseemly that the law should protect the publication of malicious falsehoods, absolute privilege is justified on the practical ground that without it, persons with a public duty to speak out might be threatened with vexatious actions for slander and libel.

Lambert then brought an action for slander against Levita which he continued to pursue despite pressure from Sir Stephen Tallents, controller of administration and the chairman of the BBC Ronald Collet Norman who was a friend of Levita's.

This section provides that in an action for slander ("words spoken and published"), brought by a female plaintiff in respect of words that impute unchastity or adultery to her, it is not necessary for her to allege or prove that she has suffered special damage.

UKIP demanded an apology for the "closet racists" remark and threatened legal action for slander, although this was later dropped, on the grounds that to sue the party would have to prove loss, and the comment had actually had a positive effect for UKIP (due to increased publicity for the small party).