Sentences with phrase «mere statement of opinion»

The courts allow a certain amount of latitude for «mere puffery», because a reasonably alert person is not justified in placing reliance on a mere statement of opinion, judgment, expectation or conjecture, all of which may be expressed in an uncertain and hazy way.

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I think it's clear that if the same standard were applied in the Mann case, none of the allegedly defamatory statements are specific enough to be considered factual accusations rather than mere opinions.

I would qualify this final statement with the opinion that the mere act of providing a binding interpretation of EU law on the basis of the questions asked to it by the District Court would not in itself be to err, which is all that the Court «has been asked to [do]» at this stage.