A plea of justification to an imputation of suspicion on reasonable grounds must plead the objective facts of the plaintiff's conduct, not merely that 'there was evidence that' such conduct occurred. Pleading the existence of evidence rather than the underlying facts breaches the repetition rule and is insufficient. Where the plaintiff's imputation is pleaded conjunctively, the defence must answer both limbs or the entire plea will be struck out.
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