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Burleigh v Telegraph Media Group Ltd

[2020] EWHC 2359 (QB)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division (Media and Communications List)
Year2020
StatusPersuasive authority

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.

Area of Law

General

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