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Lait v Evening Standard Ltd
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The judgment clarifies the rules of pleading in relation to aggravated damages. Where there is a potentially legitimate meaning: “it is confusing (especially, potentially, for a jury) to have to address a different defamatory meaning in respect of aggravation of damages from the primary meaning. They would have to decide whether the words bore the meaning in question and I cannot see why it should be pleaded in a different place. If it belongs anywhere, it belongs in the conventional meaning paragraph.”