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Peck v Williams Trade Supplies Ltd

[2020] EWHC 966 (QB)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division (Media and Communications List)
Year2020
StatusPersuasive authority

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.

Area of Law

General

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