Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Goodfellow v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited [2017] FCA 1152 File number: NSD 827 of 2017
Judge: WIGNEY J
Date of judgment: 29 September 2017
Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application to strike out defamatory imputations pleaded in statement of claim – application for separate trial on question of the form of the defamatory imputations as pleaded – whether publication capable of conveying the pleaded imputations – whether pleaded imputations are "bad in form"
Legislation: Defamation Act 1974 (NSW) (repealed) Defamation Act 2005 (NSW) ss 8, 25, 26 Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) s 37M Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) rr 16.21(1), 16.32, 30.01
Cases cited: Adeang v The Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2016] FCA 1200 Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd v Marsden (1998) 43 NSWLR 158 Banque Commerciale SA (in liq) v Akhil Holdings Ltd (1990) 169 CLR 279 Berezovsky v Forbes [2001] EWCA Civ 1251 Betfair Pty Ltd v Racing New South Wales (2010) 189 FCR 356 Corby v Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd [2014] NSWCA 227 Dare v Pulham (1982) 148 CLR 658 Drummoyne Municipal Council v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1990) 21 NSWLR 135 Fair Work Ombudsman v Eastern Colour Pty Ltd [2011] FCA 803 Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Alex [2014] NSWCA 273 Favell v Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd (2005) 221 ALR 186 Favell v Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd [2004] QCA 135 Greek Herald Pty Ltd v Nikolopoulos (2002) 54 NSWLR 165 Lewis v Daily Telegraph Ltd [1964] AC 234 Ma Ching Kwan v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd [1998] NSWSC 321 McCormick v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd (1989) 16 NSWLR 485 Meckiff v Simpson [1968] VR 62 Morris v Newcastle Newspapers Pty Ltd (1985) 1 NSWLR 260 Murphy v Nationwide News Pty Limited (No 2) [2017] FCA 781 Murphy v Nationwide News Pty Limited [2017] FCA 603 Olbers Co Ltd v Commonwealth of Australia (No 3) [2003] FCA 651 Radisch v McDonald [2010] FCA 762 Reading Australia Pty Ltd v Australian Mutual Provident Society (1999) 240 FCR 276 Save the Ridge Inc v Commonwealth (2005) 147 FCR 97 Toben v Milne [2014] NSWCA 200 Trade Practices Commission v Pioneer Concrete (Qld) Pty Ltd (1994) 52 FCR 164 University of Sydney v ResMed Ltd (No 5) [2012] FCA 232 Whelan v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd (1988) 12 NSWLR 148
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