| 单词 | Defamatory meaning |
| 释义 | 誹謗性質的涵意 The meaning of an expression or image assessed as injurious to a person’s reputation in light of the ‘understanding of the hypothetical referees who are taken to have a uniform view of the meaning of the language used, and upon the standards, moral or social, by which they evaluate the imputation they understand to have been made’. The test is an objective one, namely whether a reasonable man of ordinary intelligence and with ordinary knowledge and experience of all the affairs would be likely to understand the publication in a libellous sense. The meaning intended by the person making the statement is irrelevant: Cassidy v Daily Mirror Newpapers Ltd [1929] All ER Rep 117, 2 KB 331; Easy Finder Ltd v Oriental Daily Publisher Ltd & Anor [1997] 3 HKC 348. At trial, the judge has to decide whether the words complained of are reasonably capable of bearing a defamatory meaning and it would be left to the jury to be decided as a question of fact: Slim v Daily Telegraph Ltd [1968] 1 All ER 497, 2 QB 157 (CA); Oriental Daily Publisher Ltd v Next Magazine Publishing Ltd [1999] 2 HKC 678 (CA). See also Defamatory matter; Innuendo. 因應「假定的裁判人的理解（視他們對所使用的語言的涵義有劃一意見），及他們憑藉評估有關貶損言辭的道德或社會標準」，而評估某表達方式或影像的涵義對某人的名譽具損害性。此乃客觀測試，即對各項事情具一般智慧、一般知識及經驗的合理人是否相當可能會認為有關的公布屬誹謗性質。作出陳述的人意圖作出的涵義無關：Cassidy v Daily Mirror Newpapers Ltd [1929] All ER Rep 117, 2 KB 331；Easy Finder Ltd v Oriental Daily Publisher Ltd & Anor [1997] 3 HKC 348。法官在審訊時須決定遭投訴的言辭是否可合理帶有誹謗性質的涵意，並會讓陪審團以事實的問題作出決定：Slim v Daily Telegraph Ltd [1968] 1 All ER 497, 2 QB 157 （英國上訴法院）；Oriental Daily Publisher Ltd v Next Magazine Publishing Ltd [1999] 2 HKC 678 （上訴法庭）。另見 Defamatory matter; Innuendo。 |
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