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[2011] 1 AC 852
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“…llett v Corbyn [13], [19]. Reference may also be made to Telnikoff v Matusevich [1992] AC 343, 352 (which deals with context), Joseph v Spiller [2010] UKSC 53, [2011] 1 AC 852 [88]-[89] (Lord Phillips), the judgment of Sharp LJ in Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 933, [2019] EMLR 23 at [32]-[33] and […”
“…he common law operated. The five ingredients of the common law defence of fair comment were identified by the Supreme Court in Joseph v Spiller [2010] UKSC 53, [2011] 1 AC 852, approving with qualifications the judgment of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong in Tse Wai Chun v Cheng (above) [16]-[21]. The first condition was that t…”
“…he summary in Koutsogiannis. This was wrong, submits Mr Hudson: any such rule of law was disapproved of by the Supreme Court in Joseph v Spiller [2010] UKSC 53 [2011] 1 AC 852 and survives, if at all, in section 3(3) of the 2013 Act. The Judge’s approach wrongly conflated the first two stages of the statutory analysis, when the Judge…”