Cases

Lait v Evening Standard Ltd

Facts

L, a Conservative MP, sued for libel in respect of an article in which it was wrongly stated that she had been forced to repay nearly £25,000 capital gain made on the sale of a tax-payer funded home. D applied to strike out the meaning complained of as impossible, and to strike out the claim, contending that the article could not bear any defamatory meaning. D also applied for the striking out of parts of the aggravated damages plea as an abuse of process. L argued that it was legitimate to plead different meanings in aggravation of damages, and that the ordinary rules about meaning did not apply to aggravated damages pleas.

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