What is the effect of using the word "defamatory meaning" in the context of a defamation claim?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lawson v. Baines, 2012 BCCA 117 (CanLII):
Without making the overly elaborate analysis of the issue warned against in Gillick v. BBC, [1996] E.M.L.R. 267, [1995] E.W.C.A. Civ 46, it is clear that the combined implications and overall impression that the words are capable of bearing the complained of defamatory meaning certainly could be left on the reasonable reader.
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