Jay & Ors v Petrikas & Ors (No.2) [2021] NSWDC 512

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Jay & Ors v Petrikas & Ors (No.2) [2021] NSWDC 512 Hearing dates: 23 September 2021 Date of orders: 23 September 2021 Decision date: 24 September 2021 Jurisdiction: Civil Before: Gibson DCJ Decision: Order: (1) Dismiss the plaintiffs' applications for further and better discovery and alternative order for discovery from a non-party (RFS). (2) The plaintiffs are to pay the defendants' costs such costs to include the costs of 17 and 24 June and of today. (3) Plaintiffs' interrogatories in 21day. (4) Plaintiffs are to answer the defendants' interrogatories in 21 days. (5) The defendants are to answer the plaintiffs' interrogatories in 21 days after the receipt. (6) Matter stood over to the Defamation List for directions on Thursday 28 October 2021 at 9am, on which date, if there is no objection to interrogatories, the matter will be allocated a hearing date as a 5-10 day matter. Catchwords: TORT – defamation – application for further and better discovery and non-party discovery – no issue of principle Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) ss 56-60 UCPR rr 5.4, 21.2 and 42.1 Cases Cited: Ace Hire Aust Pty Ltd v ADI Ltd 2006 NSWSC 969 Ange v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2012] NSWSC 1200 Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union v BHP Coal (No 2) [2017] FCA 1539 Djuricanin v Foreign Language Publications Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, Levine J, 12 May 1995) El-mouelhy v QSociety of Australia Inc (No 4) [2015] NSWSC 1816 Fruehauf Finance Corp Ltd v Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd (1990) 20 NSWLR 359 Hoxton Park Residents Action Group Inc. v Liverpool City Council [2014] NSWSC 372 Hunter New England Local Health District v Munters Pty Limited [2018] NSWSC 788 Kaji Australia Pty Ltd v Glover (No. 2) [2018] NSWSC 414 Charmyne Palavi v Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd & Anor [2011] NSWSC 274 Palavi v Radio 2UE Sydney Pty Ltd [2011] NSWCA 264 Schutz DSL (Australia) Pty Ltd v VIP Plastic Packaging Pty Ltd (No 15) [2012] FCA 781 Tamberlin J noted in Yarra Creek Central Packing Shed Pty Ltd v Amcor Limited [2006] FCA 1802 Texts Cited: Brown on Defamation: Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States (Carswell, 2nd ed.) "Discovery in Federal Courts" (ALRC CP 2, 15 November 2010) Category: Procedural rulings Parties: First Plaintiff: Graeme Jay Second Plaintiff: John Peters First Defendant: Chris Petrikas Second Defendant: David Ryan Third Defendant: Ian Wedge Fourth Defendant: Karen Hodges Representation: Counsel: Plaintiffs: Mr T Crispin Defendants: Mr B Dean