Cases

British Chiropractic Association v Singh (CA)

Held

Allowing the appeal and setting aside the Judge's findings:

The material words were expressions of opinion. In particular, the Judge erred by treating the statement that there was not a jot of evidence to support the BCA’s claims as an assertion of fact. This was, in the Court’s judgment, a statement of opinion, and one backed by reasons. Once the statement was properly characterised as a value judgment, the remaining words from which the defamatory meaning has been derived lost their sting. The natural meaning of the passage was not that the BCA was promoting what it knew to be bogus treatments but that it was promoting what S contended were bogus treatments without regard to the want of reliable evidence of their efficacy. The Judge’s findings were set aside.

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