United Kingdom social mediaserious harm

Monroe v Hopkins

[2017] EWHC 433 (QB)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

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

Year2017

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The meaning of a tweet is to be determined by the impression on the ordinary reasonable reader of Twitter reading the tweet in its context, and the 'serious harm' requirement under section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 may be satisfied by tweets that have an inherent tendency to cause serious reputational harm even absent proof of specific consequential damage.

Area of Law

General

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