ABSTRACT The article scrutinises a libel case brought by a claimant against the public prosecuting authority in England and Wales, asking the court to determine as a preliminary issue the meaning of a Charging Announcement. This case is worth consideration because it illustrates how the arguably problematic interpretation of the offence of ‘making’ indecent images of children may extend beyond the dynamics of the criminal trial to colour the adjudication of civil disputes. The article also challenges the qualities of hypothetical referees in defamation cases, suggesting that they need to be determined based on a realistic rather than an idealistic view of late modern, multi-mediated societies. The Savile scandal and other high-profile child sexual abuse cases have cultivated a climate of mistrust in which the ordinary reader is reasonably (not unduly) suspicious and should not be expected in this context to favour a less defamatory meaning over a more defamatory one.

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后现代社会的de亵图像和诽谤性含义：将普通而合理的读者带到象牙塔外

摘要该条款详细审查了索赔人针对英格兰和威尔士的公共检察机关提起的诽谤案，要求法院将《收费公告》的含义确定为初步事项。此案值得考虑，因为它说明了对“制作”不雅儿童图像的犯罪可能存在问题的解释如何扩展到刑事审判的动态之外，从而为民事纠纷的裁决增色。文章还对诽谤案件中的假设裁判员的素质提出了挑战，表明他们需要基于对现代，多元中介社会的现实而不是理想主义的观点来确定。