 There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made the subject of fair comment or criticism, not only by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne in mind between comment or criticism...  Digest of the Natal Law Reports [1858-1893] - Page 207by William Broome - 1896 - 2 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law - 1887 - 542 pages
...publications of the appellants that the action was brought by the respondent. * * * There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne in mind between comment or criticism and allegations of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2072 pages
...express malice. This claim was denied. The lord chancellor thus slated the law: "There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction caunot be too clearly 1к>гпе in mind between comment or criticism and allegations... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1152 pages
...more Important, yet Lord Herschell, speaking for the Privy Council, said : "There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne In mind between comment or criticism, and allegations of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 256 pages
...plaintiff could only succeed on proof of express malice, is not well founded. There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne in mind between comment or criticism and allegations of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1168 pages
...Herschell in Davis v. Shepstone, 11 App. Cas. LR 187, where he used these words: "There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made the subject of fair comment and criticism, not only by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - Forms (Law) - 1887 - 1174 pages
...fails." (Per cur. in Lefroy v. Burnside (No. 2), 4 LRIr. at pp. 565, 566.) " There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne in mind between comment or criticism and allegations of... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1104 pages
...publications of the appellants that the action was brought by the respondent * * * There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne in mind between comment or criticism and allegations of... | |
 | Richard J. Kelly - Libel and slander - 1889 - 306 pages
...The late Liberal Lord Chancellor, Lord Herschell, in an able judgment said: " There is no doubt that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the Press but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne in mind between comment or criticism and allegations of... | |
 | John Townshend - Libel and slander - 1890 - 972 pages
...be a candidate, are not privileged. (Commonwealth v. Wardwell, 136 Mass. 164.) 1 "There is no doubt the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne in mind between comment or criticism and allegations of... | |
 | Thomas Brett - English law - 1891 - 660 pages
...The Court decided that the appellants were liable. " There is no doubt," said Lord llerschell, " that the public acts of a public man may lawfully be made...by the press, but by all members of the public. But the distinction cannot be too clearly borne in mind between comment or criticism and allegations of... | |
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