Sim v Stretch
1936 · [1936] 2 All ER 1237
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- Facts
- A telegram suggested the had borrowed money from his housemaid and not paid her.
- Issue
- Was the telegram ?
- Held
- No. The words were not capable of a defamatory meaning.
- Principle
- Lord Atkin: words are defamatory if they tend to lower the plaintiff in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally.
- Why it matters
- The standard test of defamation.
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