A defendant in defamation proceedings who seeks to challenge imputations as not differing in substance or as incapable of being conveyed should invoke the separate question procedure under UCPR r 28.2 rather than relying on a strike-out application, as the latter is an interlocutory decision from which leave to appeal will be difficult to obtain and which does not preclude the issue being raised at trial.
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