“Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd and another [2019] UKSC 27. The Supreme Court has unanimously held that the Defamation Act 2013 altered the common law presumption of general damage in defamation. It is no longer sufficient for the imposition of liability that a statement is inherently injurious or has a ‘tendency’ to injure a claimant’s reputation. Instead, the language of section 1(1) of the Act requires a statement to produce serious harm to reputation before it can be considered defamatory …” (more)
[Clare Duffy and Jonathan Price, UK Human Rights Blog, 17 June]
First posted 2019-06-18 12:46:58
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