What is the current state of the law in relation to defamatory words?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hudson v Myong, 2020 BCSC 517 (CanLII):
Words may convey a defamatory meaning literally, inferentially or by legal innuendo. Literal meaning is conveyed directly; inferential meaning, indirectly; and legal innuendo, by extension based on extrinsic facts. These alternate means of proof were summarised by Hinkson J.A., as he then was, in [Lawson v. Baines, 2012 BCCA 117]:
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