"Liability for libel depends, not on the intention of the defamer, but on the fact of defamation. A person is liable for the reasonable inferences to be drawn from the...
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"Although it is not necessary to prove the truth of every word in the libel, the defendant is however obliged to prove that the main charge or gist of the...
"To establish a plea of justification the defendant must prove that the defamatory imputation is true. The defendant must justify the precise imputation complained of. In other words, strict proof...
"One form of conversion is where there has been a positive and unequivocal wrongful act of dealing with goods in a manner inconsistent with the owner's rights and an intention...
"This is an action for conversion in tort between same parties. The State High Court has unlimited jurisdiction to try it by virtue of Section 236(1) of the 1979 Constitution....
"A statement which on the face of it is not defamatory may become so when published to persons who know the facts which enabled persons to whom the libel was...
"Newspapers and other publications which report what transpires in our courts are to a certain extent, privileged. They serve the cause of public justice on such occasions through their accounts...
"While the onus of proving that the report of publication is fair and accurate lies on the defendant, the burden of proving malice rests solely on the plaintiff. As long...
"Qualified privilege is not absolute but qualified and can easily be defeated by malice. Malice means making use of the occasion for some indirect purpose. If the occasion is privileged,...
"If the report be as a whole a substantially fair and correct account of the proceedings, a few slight inaccuracies will not deprive it of protection. But where the inaccuracies...
TORT LAW – Defamation – Qualified Privilege – Fair and Accurate Report of Judicial Proceedings
"For a report of judicial proceedings to be privileged, it must be proved to be 'fair and accurate'. 'Accurate' means substantially accurate. Although the report must be fair and accurate,...
"When it is alleged that defamatory meaning should be inferred beyond the literal meaning of words, there is no room for fanciful imagination... When a tribunal is urged to draw...