A broadcaster who reports statements made in court proceedings referring to a person as a murder suspect may be treated under the repetition rule as having adopted the substance of those statements, such that the report is capable of bearing the defamatory meaning that the person was suspected of murder and there were reasonable grounds for such suspicion. At the strike-out stage, the question is whether the words are capable of bearing the alleged meaning, not whether they actually do.
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