Cases

Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd & Others (No.3) (QB)

Held

The overall impression conveyed to the hypothetical ordinary reasonable readers that the Claimant had taken drugs to enhance his performance in cycling competitions. It naturally followed, and was accepted by the Defendants, that this connoted that the article also thereby alleged that he was a fraud a cheat and a liar. This impression as to the meaning conveyed by the words was not altered or displaced by a textual analysis of the article.

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