A defendant cannot rely in mitigation of damages on the fact that similar defamatory statements have been published about the same claimant by other persons.
Citations:
[1964] AC 371
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd and Another SC 12-Jun-2019
Need to Show Damage Increased by 2013 Act
The claimant alleged defamation by three publishers. The articles were held to have defamatory meaning, but the papers argued that the defamations did not reach the threshold of seriousness in section 1(1) of the 2013 Act.
Held: The appeal . .
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Defamation
Updated: 16 April 2022; Ref: scu.675560