Federal Court of Australia
JUDGMENT No. ened taal oot.
RAL RT OF T A) ) I ITOR ) No. ACTG 29 of 1994 ) DISTRICT REGISTRY ) ) DIV ) A FROM A DGE FEDERAL R' T IA BETWEEN: AME EPH QO' NEILL Appellant
AND: ARNOLD MANN
Respondent
CORAM: BEAUMONT, RYAN AND CARR JJ. DATE: 30 November 1994
PLACE: SYDNEY (Heard in Canberra) R RI ND M
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(Patricia Moore) Associate to Beaumont J.
14 December 1994
RECEIVED 19 DEC 1994
FEDERAL COURT OF
AUSTRALIA
PRINCIPAL REGISTAY
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TCHWORDS
DEFAMATION - privilege - absolute privilege or immunity - whether absolute privilege or immunity from an action for defamation attached to a complaint about a special magistrate made to the Attorney-General and the Chief Magistrate - whether process involved was a judicial or quasi-judicial -proceeding for the purpose of the absolute privilege or immunity rule - whether policy considerations favour the extension of the doctrine of absolute privilege or immunity beyond that which attaches to statements made before judicial oer quasi~judicial proceedings - whether document upon which defamation proceedings were based was a document necessary for initiation of the inquiry
Magistrates Court Ordinance 1930 (ACT), Div. 2
Jamiesen v R (1993) 177 CLR 574, discussed Gibbons v Duffell (1932) 47 CLR 520, applied Theophanous v Herald & Weekly Times Ltd. (1994) 124 ALR 1,
discussed Stephens v West Australi Newspape td. (1994) 124 ALR 80, discussed
Cunliffe v Commonwealth of Australia (1994) 124 ALR 120,
discussed
Hercules v_ Phease (1994) Aust. Torts Reports 81-263,
considered
Purden v Seress-Smith (1993) IRLR 77, discussed
Bretherton v Kaye & Winneke [1971] VR 111, discussed
Douglas v Lewis (1982) 30 SASR 50, discussed
Martin v Watson [1994] QB 425, discussed
Hasselblad (G.B.) Ltd v Orbinson [1985] 1 QB 475, discussed
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