What is the test for defamatory words in a defamation action?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Salager v Dye & Durham Corporation, 2018 BCSC 438 (CanLII):
As Justice Ballance explained in Dinyer-Fraser v. Laurentian Bank et.al, 2005 BCSC 225 at para. 156: The alleged defamatory words are to be given their ordinary and natural meaning which may encompass extended meanings, called innuendos, arising from inferences or implications reasonably borne by that meaning [Citations omitted].
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