The claimant's (or in the case of a counterclaim, the defendant's) statement of case in a defamation claim must, in addition to the matters set out in Part 8-
----(a) give sufficient particulars of the publications in respect of which the claim is brought to enable them to be identified;
----(b) where the claimant alleges that the words or matters complained of were used in a defamatory sense other than their ordinary meaning, give particulars of the facts and matters relied on in support of such sense; and
----(c) where the claimant alleges that the defendant maliciously published the words or matters, give particulars in support of the allegation.
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