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Virtual Advisor for English and Welsh Law
All of these points need to be applicable for s3 Honest Opinion Defamation Act (2013) to be used as defence, the statement was...
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A statement of opinion
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In general or specific it was based on an opinion
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The basis for having the opinion
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Because at the time of the case it was published fact; or
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Because before the case it was a statement asserted to be a fact
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