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STANDARD REASONABLENESS [1 record]

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Record 1 1987-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The test for identification is the same as for defamatory meaning: would a sensible reader reasonably identify the plaintiff as the person defamed? Here also the standard of reasonableness is not high: the ordinary reader of a newspaper article ... is not expected to read "with cautions and critical analytical care"; he may read "casually and not expecting a high degree of accuracy" and indulge "in a certain amount of loose thinking" and even "rather far-fetched inferences".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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