The Weekly Law Reports
[2006] 1 WLR 2462
Court of Appeal
Armstrong v Times Newspapers Ltd and others (No 2)
[2006] EWCA Civ 519
2006 April 26;
June 13
June 13
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, May and Dyson LJJ
Practice
— Trial
— Libel action
— Complicated libel action to be tried by judge alone
— Judge finding words complained of bearing range of defamatory meanings
— Court's power to order different questions of fact to be tried by different mode of trial
— Whether power to order question of particular defamatory meaning to be tried by jury
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Supreme Court Act 1981 (c 54), s. 69(1)(4)