A determination under s 10A of the Defamation Act 2005 (Qld) as to whether the serious harm element is established is an evaluative judgment of fact subject to the correctness standard of appellate review, not the House v The King discretionary standard; and publications to a limited number of police officers acting in their professional statutory capacity, without more, are unlikely to establish serious harm to reputation.
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