The proceedings concerned a defamation claim arising from a television statement made in the context of the public debate on antisemitism, in which two unnamed individuals were described as highly disruptive and very abusive towards a speaker. The antisemitism-related core issue was whether, in the context of the controversy at the time, the statement would be understood as portraying an identifiable individual in a defamatory manner as aggressive and abusive. The court held, as preliminary issues, that the statement referred to the claimant, constituted allegations of fact, and conveyed a sufficiently defamatory tendency; the issue of “serious harm” had not yet been determined. Defamation Act 2013, section 1; Limitation Act 1980, section 35; Civil Procedure Rules, rule 17.4; CPR PD 39A para 6.1