Cases

Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)


Issue

(1) Whether the words identified by the Defendant were protected by privilege as a fair and accurate report of the speech in Parliament.

(2) Whether the meaning of the non-privileged parts of the article should be found by applying the single-meaning and the repetition rules to the allegations of the MP in the context of the article as a whole; and

(3) Whether the non-privileged words bore a Chase Level 1 or Level 2 meaning.

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