Evans v Johns and The Gleaner Company, Ltd
| Jurisdiction | Jamaica |
| Date | 1961 |
| Year | 1961 |
| Court | Supreme Court (Jamaica) |
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3 cases
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Percival Syblis v Delores Haughton
...That special damage has followed as the direct and natural result of the publication [Evans v Johns and The Gleaner Co. Ltd. [1961]4 WIR, 502 [1961]4 WIR, 502 ]. 13 In the alternative an award for Malicious Falsehood can be sustained by virtue of Section 5 of the Defamation Act: “5[1] In an......
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Compton v Crusader Caribbean Publishing Company (1971) Ltd et Al
...ago the plaintiff in an action for libel in Jamaica was awarded damages in the sum of $11,520.00 E.C.C. I refer to the case of Evans v John and the Gleaner Co. Ltd, reported in (1961) 4 W.I.R. 502. 97 Bearing in mind the trend of these awards in the region, in my judgment, it would not be ......
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M.A. Bullen Alston Andrew (Proprietors of the "Vanguard" newspaper) Appellants v Eric Matthew Gairy Respondents [ECSC]
...these remarks that the circumstances of this case may reasonably have justified a larger award. 17 Then there is the case ofEvans v. Johns and the Gleaner Co. Ltd. reported in (1961) 4 W.I.R. 502. This was a case which was heard by Small J. in Jamaica. The plaintiff was a manufacturer of s......