United Kingdom corporate claimantspecial damagesmitigation

ReachLocal UK Ltd v Bennett

[2014] EWHC 3405 (QB)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHigh Court (Queen's Bench Division)

Year2014

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A trading corporation may recover substantial general damages and proven special damages in defamation where a disparagement campaign causes quantifiable business loss; recoverable special damages include reasonable mitigation expenditure (such as PR costs and client credits) causally connected to the libel, but not unreasonable mitigation outlay.

Area of Law

General

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