 ... 5. By a fair and true report, without malice, of (1) the proceedings of a public meeting, if such meeting was lawfully convened for a lawful purpose and open to the public, or (2) the publication of the matter complained of was for the public benefit.  The Canada Law Journal - Page 4651881Full view - About this book
 | British Columbia - Law - 1891 - 598 pages
...privileged if the meeting was lawfully convened for a lawful purpose and open to the public, and if the report was fair and accurate and published without...if the publication of the matter complained of was Proviso. for the public benefit : Provided always, that the protection intended to be afforded by this... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - Forms (Law) - 1881 - 836 pages
...public meeting should be privileged, if such meeting was lawfully convened for a lawful purpose, and was open to the public, and if such report was fair and...matter complained of was for the public benefit." But they "are of opinion that such protection should not be available as a defence in any proceeding... | |
 | William Knox Wigram - Criminal law - 1883 - 516 pages
...'newspaper' furnished by this section excludes papers published at intervals exceeding 26 days. 2. (Sec. 2). 'Any report published in any newspaper of the proceedings...matter complained of was for the public benefit.' But no defendant is thus protected who has refused to insert in his newspaper a reasonable letter of... | |
 | John Indermaur - Common law - 1883 - 604 pages
...reports of other 44 & 45 Viet, meetings, it has now been provided that any report c> ^ "ect" 2published in any newspaper of the proceedings of a public meeting...complained of was for the public benefit ; provided that this protection shall not be available as a defence in any proceeding, if the plaintiff or pro(m)... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - Criminal law - 1883 - 468 pages
...Walter, LR 4 QB 73. 1 Analogy of Stctcns v. Sampson, LR 5 Ex. Div. 5.1. 6 44 & 45 Viet. c. 60, s. 2. lawfully convened for a lawful purpose and open to...the matter complained of was for the public benefit. The protection afforded by the enactment on which this Article is founded is not available as a defence... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - Legal maxims - 1884 - 1078 pages
...published in newspapers are RCI ports of privileged if such meeting was lawfully convened for a Meetings. lawful purpose and open to the public, and if such...the matter complained of was for the public benefit (c). The fair and honest discussion of or comments upon a matter of pubic interest iu a newspaper is... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris - Criminal law - 1884 - 696 pages
...such meeting was lawfully convened for a lawful purpose and open to the public, and if such report is fair and accurate and published without malice, and if the publication of the matter complained of is for the public benefit ; but this protection will not be allowed to a defendant who has refused... | |
 | Ernest Chester Thomas - Constitutional law - 1885 - 214 pages
...Newspaper Libel and Registration Act, 1 88 1 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 60), which enacts that : — (S. 2.) "Any report published in any newspaper of the proceedings...matter complained of was for the public benefit." (S. 3.) " No criminal prosecution shall be commenced against any proprietor, publisher, editor, or... | |
 | Ernest Chester Thomas - Constitutional law - 1885 - 196 pages
...Newspaper Libel and Registration Act, 1 88 1 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 60), which enacts that : — (S. 2.) " Any report published in any newspaper of the proceedings...matter complained of was for the public benefit." (S. 3.) " No criminal prosecution shall be commenced against any proprietor, publisher, editor, or... | |
 | John Indermaur - Common law - 1885 - 628 pages
...public meeting shall be privileged, if such meeting was lawfully convened for a lawful purpose and opeu to the public, and if such report was fair and accurate...the matter complained of was for the public benefit; (t) See Starkie on Slander and Libel, 223 tt Kq. ; see also Dieyer v. Eimonde, Ir. Reps. 2 y. B. lApps.)... | |
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