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Islam Expo Ltd v Spectator (1828) Ltd [2010] EWHC 2011 (QB); SJ 17 August p28

The defendant publisher and journalist applied for a declaration that words used in an article published on a website were not capable of referring to the claimant. The article included hyperlinks to other references, marked in the usual way by being in a different colour and it was alleged that the natural and ordinary meaning of the words used in one of the references meant and were understood to mean that the claimant ‘was a fascist party dedicated to genocide which organized Islam Expo, a conference with a racist and genocidal programme’. The issue was whether the words complained were capable of being understood to refer to the claimant.