Defamation and Juries

 Defamation - Involvement of Jury in Difficult Trial
Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd and others
CA
13 June 2006
Daily Law Notes Report Summary
Where, pursuant to s 69(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981, a libel
action was to be tried by a judge alone because it was
inconvenient for it to be tried by a jury, the court had an open
discretion under s 69(4) to order that a jury should decided the
question of fact as to what particular defamatory meaning the
words complained of bore.