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meaningpleadingsingle meaning rule
Peck v Williams Trade Supplies Ltd
[2020] EWHC 966 (QB)
Key Principle
A pleaded meaning, whether advanced by claimant or defendant, must identify the act, condition or attribute of the claimant said to be defamatory of him, and must not be framed merely as a report of what others have said or done about him.
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General
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