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Burleigh v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
[2020] EWHC 2359 (QB)
Key Principle
Whether a published apology or correction is itself defamatory of the claimant depends on the natural and ordinary meaning the ordinary reasonable reader would derive from it, and there are dangers in laying down broad propositions such as that it can never be defamatory to say a person got their facts wrong.
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