Cases

Johnson v MGN Ltd

Held

Dismissing the application:

The allegations could cause considerable damage to a player's reputation depending on the context. The category of readers who would have had the relevant facts at their fingertips in order to draw the pleaded innuendo meaning was "very small indeed" but the innuendo meaning should not withdrawn from the jury. As to the natural and ordinary meaning: the article was ambiguous and allowance should therefore be made in favour of C. There was no justification in ruling that no reasonable reader could understand the words in the sense already pleaded on C's behalf. The words were capable of bearing some defamatory meaning.

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