Following Chakravarti v Advertiser Newspapers Ltd, plaintiffs in South Australia have an obligation to plead imputations arising from publications alleged to be defamatory, whether the imputations arise from the natural and ordinary meaning of the words or from extrinsic facts. Imputations must be pleaded without exaggeration, avoiding rhetorical flourishes, imprecise words such as 'improperly', and language that goes beyond what the published words can reasonably bear. Applications to strike out imputations as incapable of arising from published words should be brought under r 46.18, not r 25.04.
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