“…tion must be one that would tend to have a “substantially adverse effect” on the way that people would treat the claimant: Thornton v Telegraph Media Group Ltd [2010] EWHC 1414 (QB), [2011] 1 WLR 1985 [98] (Tugendhat J).…”
“…d a substantial threshold of seriousness to be surmounted before a statement could be regarded as defamatory, as appeared from Thornton v Telegraph Media Group [2010] EWHC 1414 (QB); [2011] 1 WLR 1983. It was against this background that Parliament enacted the Defamation Act 2013.…”