What is the test for determining whether an occasion is qualified privilege?

Saskatchewan, Canada


The following excerpt is from Loos et al. v. Robbins and Saskatchewan, 1987 CanLII 4919 (SK CA):

The learned trial judge in making his decision correctly set out the test for the decision as to whether or not an occasion was one of qualified privilege by referring himself to the decision of this court in Sapiro v. Leader Publishing Company Limited, 1926 CanLII 130 (SK CA), [1926] 2 W.W.R. 268.

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