What is the test for a defamation action in common law?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Petrie v. Guelph Lumber Co., 1885 CanLII 17 (ON CA):
In Arkwright v. Newbold, 17 Ch. D. 301, Cotton, L.J., says (p. 320): “It is a common law action in which it is necessary to prove that a statement had been made which, to the knowledge of the person making it, was false, or which was made by him with such recklessness as to make him liable just as if he knew it to be false.”
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