What is the effect of bad pleading in a libel action?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Berry v. Retail Merchants Association of Saskatchewan, 1924 CanLII 182 (SK CA):
These paragraphs are plainly bad pleading, and were quite properly struck out. It should hardly be necessary to say that in actions of libel and slander the precise words complained of are material, and should be set forth verbatim in the statement of claim (Harris v. Warre [18791 4 C.P.D. 125, 48L.J.C.P. 310).
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