United Kingdom public interest defencetruth defenceserious harm

Turley v Unite the Union

Turley v Unite the Union [2019] EWHC 3547 (QB)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

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

Year2019

StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

A defamation claimant succeeds where the defendant fails to establish the statutory defences of truth (s.2) and publication on a matter of public interest (s.4 Defamation Act 2013) and the serious-harm threshold (s.1) is met; the public-interest defence requires the publisher actually to have believed publication was in the public interest.

Area of Law

General

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