libel she will at once be met by the defence of qualified privilege and unless she proves malice (which will be difficult if not impossible
have been found in the present case, the defendant has an absolute privilege and is absolutely protected by the law from a civil action ... such a case there is no absolute privilege hut only a qualified privilege and that as the defendant did not act in good faith
justify them.
So also, when an occasion is protected by qualified privilege, this Court
never grants an injunction to restrain a slander or libel
connection with the affairs of the society and such communications/petitions are privileged communications so no civil action of defamation will lie. There ... into the grievances of its members. The defendants enjoy at least qualified privilege and, therefore, whatever was said by the defendants in their communications
support the theory of a qualified privilege. To put the matter briefly, the divergence of judicial opinion between the representatives of the two different schools ... unnecessary to consider cases in which merely the question of qualified privilege, by reasons of the person, who made the defamatory statement, having some interest
proceedings are not absolutely privileged in this country,
and that a qualified privilege in this regard cannot be claimed in respect
of such statements, unless
The State Of Kerala vs K.Ajith on 28 July, 2021
Equivalent citations: AIR 2021
Government is still Government even when it is dispensing bounties, gratuities or privileges, and therefore, one who lacks a "right" to a Government ... asset and that the plea of an absolute or qualified privilege by Government in respect of a communication by, it to one of its subordinates
explained in the case last mentioned, the defence of absolute privilege in this, as in other cases, is allowed in the public interest, because ... absolute privilege it was certainly one of qualified privilege; and that being so, and there being no evidence of malice of any kind
plaintiff can say
that the defendants are not entitled to the qualified privilege". In
Radheyshyam Tiwari v. Eknath AIR 1985 Bom 285, a plea