QB-2022-002648 - [2025] EWHC 2565 (KB)

The third publication

The Defendant’s pleaded case with regard to this publication is that the “strenuous efforts” that he made to verify the allegation that the Claimant was a “black sheep” were the same as the “strenuous efforts” that he made in respect of the first publication.

The same points apply, and the same conclusions follow, as in the case of the first publication.