Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Murphy v Nationwide News Pty Limited (No 2) [2017] FCA 781 File number: NSD 604 of 2017
Judge: WHITE J
Date of judgment: 11 July 2017
Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – applications to strike out defamatory imputations pleaded in statement of claim – whether publications not capable of conveying the pleaded imputations – whether some imputations suffered from imprecision – whether the imputations did not differ in substance. Held: application to strike out pleaded imputations dismissed. PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application to strike out respondents' plea of contextual truth – whether plea unclear because of the use of the word "inappropriately" – whether pleaded particulars address the deficiency. Held: application to strike out plea of contextual truth allowed.
Legislation: Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) rr 16.21, 30.01 Defamation Act 1974 (NSW) Defamation Act 2005 (NSW) ss 8, 26, 31
Cases cited: Adeang v The Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2016] FCA 1200 Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd v Marsden (1998) 43 NSWLR 158 Bartlett v Swan Television and Radio Broadcasters Pty Ltd [1995] ATPR 41-434 Corby v Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd [2014] NSWCA 227 Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Zeccola [2015] NSWCA 329 Fair Work Ombudsman v Eastern Colour Pty Ltd [2011] FCA 803; (2011) 209 IR 263 Favell v Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd [2005] HCA 52; (2005) 221 ALR 186 Griffith v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2002] NSWSC 86 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Hitchcock [2007] NSWCA 364; (2007) 70 NSWLR 484 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Jones [2004] NSWCA 205 Ma Ching Kwan v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd [1998] NSWSC 321 Monte v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1979) 2 NSWLR 663 Morosi v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1977) 2 NSWLR 749 Morris v Newcastle Newspapers Pty Ltd (1985) 1 NSWLR 260 Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Hibbert [2015] NSWCA 13 Polar Aviation Pty Ltd v Civil Aviation Safety Authority [2012] FCAFC 97 Toben v Milne [2014] NSWCA 200 Trade Practices Commission v Pioneer Concrete (Qld) Pty Ltd (1994) 52 FCR 164
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