MLL217 Final: MLL217-MISLEADING-CONDUCT-AND-ECONOMIC-TORTS-EXAM-NOTES
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Held to be defamatory: shepheard v whitaker (1875) defamatory to say someone is insolvent because it implies they lack business skills. The plaintiff has the burden of establishing: defamatory matter, reference to the plaintiff, publication to a third party. There are two steps to determining whether the material contains defamatory imputations: identify the imputations from the material that are capable of bearing defamatory meaning(s) Identify the meanings that can be drawn that are potentially defamatory: exam list the defamatory imputations in the material, the test for determing whether defamatory suggestions would be. Impute p is ruthless, uncaring or callous (defamatory), Impute p was born out of a marriage (probably no longer defamatory: charleston v news group newspapers ltd claim by actors that are harrold and madge of. Neighbours", in english courts, because an english newspaper had super imposed their faces on a model in a pornographic pose and said something like look what they"re up to .
