ABSTRACT
An employer has qualified privilege in telling employees why one of their number has been dismissed. The defendant was held to have a duty to make and the Council to receive the report, and it was held to have qualified privilege. An announcement made to a student body about disciplinary action would attract qualified privilege, whether it involved examiners, invigilators, examinees, parents or school authorities. There are relatively few "qualified privilege" cases in Mauritius. Reports to the police to the effect that the plaintiff is suspected of an offence will attract qualified privilege, even if there is no explicit legal duty to report. One plaintiff was a member of an Association of sub-contractors employed by the Zambia-Tanzania Road Service Ltd.
