https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275479 Statements made by a witness during cross-examination in civil judicial proceedings, when relevant to the matter in inquiry, were treated as protected by absolute privilege and incapable of founding a later civil defamation claim. The plaint was also found not to disclose a sustainable cause of action on its own averments, because the alleged statements were made in the earlier suit and no fresh cause arose from the later judgment. Limitation was held to run from the date of the statements, not from pronouncement of judgment, so the suit was barred and the plaint liable to rejection with costs. en-us Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:22:24 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275479 Statements made by a witness during cross-examination in civil judicial proceedings, when relevant to the matter in inquiry, were treated as protected by absolute privilege and incapable of founding a later civil defamation claim. The plaint was also found not to disclose a sustainable cause of action on its own averments, because the alleged statements were made in the earlier suit and no fresh cause arose from the later judgment. Limitation was held to run from the date of the statements, not from pronouncement of judgment, so the suit was barred and the plaint liable to rejection with costs. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275479