action for libel

I have nothing to fear, except an action for libel.

I shall turn first to the general right of a body corporate to maintain an action for libel.

The only way I could show that in my opinion they were absolutely wrong was to start an action for libel.'

Many of the smaller places mentioned are fictional, perhaps to avoid possible actions for libel.

The primary reason for this practice is to prevent any possible legal action for libel which could result.

I have consulted a very high legal authority and am advised that an action for libel would lie.

Khan took no legal action for libel against either the poster or those who publicised the story.

Trouble lay ahead, however, as at the end of January 1927 a successful legal action for libel forced the publication into bankruptcy.

The action for libel was dismissed in court.

Hamilton also brought a legal action for libel against Al-Fayed.

On the latter's publication four of the artists and writers portrayed in it began actions for libel.

Legal action for libel against Prothero led to Frost spending time in jail from 1822.

The action of malicious or injurious falsehood has both similarities to, and important differences from, an action for libel.

Mathews won 3,000 crowns' damages after bringing an action for libel against the Philadelphia Gazette.

This led at last to an action for libel being brought against The Age by the chief commissioner, Richard Speight.

'They don't bring actions for libel!'

The Head Male Nurse then called a meeting of all students in which the students were threatened with actions for libel and slander.

Stockdale again figured as defendant in an action for libel brought by Joseph Nightingale in 1809, when he had to pay £200 damages.

In fact, in order to bring an action for libel a claimant has to show only that it was published to at least one person (other than him).

Factual Background As in all actions for libel, the factual background is extremely important and must be set out in some detail.

He brought an action for libel against the Pall Mall Gazette which had made the charge in a review of Free Russia.

It is not without significance that in the present case Mr. Bookbinder's action for libel is based upon the same complaints as those made by the council.

This is how I know Mr Mauro is right: I saw many of these actions for libel, and no one protested.

Actions for libel were brought against Hall, and, having been tried by a jury of military men nominated by the crown, he was convicted, imprisoned and fined.

When Henry John Rous made allegations about Day's behaviour in a letter to The Times, the trainer responded by bringing an action for libel.