Is a threshold of seriousness an element of defamatory meaning?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Northwest Organics, Limited Partnership v Roest, 2018 BCSC 866 (CanLII):

Recently, in Weaver v. Ball, Skolrood J. found it unnecessary to formally introduce a “threshold of seriousness” as an element of defamatory meaning because it is already built into that assessment:

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