United Kingdom meaningpreliminary issuechase levels

Hewson v Times Newspapers Ltd

[2019] EWHC 650 (QB)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHigh Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division (Media and Communications List)

Year2019

StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Meaning in a libel claim may be determined as a preliminary issue on the papers without an oral hearing, the court applying the natural and ordinary meaning principles to fix the single defamatory meaning the ordinary reasonable reader would understand the words to bear.

Area of Law

General

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