“…an allegation of fact, so “the answer to the first question may stifle the answer to the second”: British Chiropractic Association v Singh [2010] EWCA Civ 350, [2011] 1 WLR 133 [32]. It has become common for the two issues to be considered in the reverse order, as Saini J did in this case.…”
“…important. See for example, Branson v Bower at paragraph 16; Gatley on Libel and Slander, 12th edition, para 12.11 and British Chiropractic Association v Singh [2011] 1 WLR 133 at paragraphs 22, 26 and 31. In Singh the defendant had written an article highly critical of the BCA in which he had said that the BCA “claims that their memb…”