Cases

Jeynes v News Magazines Limited & Anor

Facts

J claimed damages for libel based on words published on the front cover of a tabloid magazine, “Love It!” next to a photograph of J. The words were: “BB’s Lisa ‘The Geezer’ My fake boobs fell out on date with James Hewitt”. J’s case was that those words meant, in their natural and ordinary meaning and/or by way of innuendo, that she was “in truth a man posing as a women, alternatively that [J] is a transgendered or transsexual person, who was born a man but had become a woman”. Eady J struck out the meaning, and therefore the claim, on the basis that the words were not capable of bearing the pleaded meaning. J appealed.

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