Hennessy v Lynch (No. 4) [2008] NSWDC 15

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: Hennessy v Lynch (No. 4) [2008] NSWDC 15

HEARING DATE(S): 14 February 2008

JUDGMENT DATE: 29 February 2008

JURISDICTION: Civil

JUDGMENT OF: Gibson DCJ

DECISION: (1) Vary order 6 of the orders of 13 December 2007 and order the defendant pay three quarters of the plaintiff's costs up until the final date for acceptance of the defendant's Offer of Compromise dated 20 April 2007 and that the plaintiff pay the defendant's costs thereafter on an indemnity basis.

CATCHWORDS: Tort - defamation - costs - s.48A Defamation Act 1974 (NSW) - offer of compromise

Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Defamation Act 1974 (NSW), ss.7A, 13 and 48A LEGISLATION CITED: Defamation Act 2005 (NSW), s.40 Supreme Court Rules 1970 (NSW), Part 52A r.33 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), Parts 26 and 42

Antoniadis v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, 24 April 1997) Arian v Nguyen [2001] NSWCA 5 Cooper v Whittingham (1880) 15 Ch D 501 Dering v Uris [1964] 2 QB 669 Haertsch v Andrews and Ors (Ireland J, 1 December 2000) Hennessy v Lynch (No.3) [2007] NSWDC 268 Jones v Sutton (No.2) [2005] NSWCA 203 Morgan v Wallis (1907) 33 TLR 495 CASES CITED: Morosi v Mirror Newspapers Ltd [1977] 2 NSWLR 749 National Auto Glass Supplies (Aust) Pty Ltd v Nielsen & Moller Auto Glass (NSW) Pty Ltd (No.9) [2007] FCA 1826 Packer v Meagher [1984] 3 NSWLR 486 Ritter v Godfrey [1920] 2 KB 47 Roache v News Group Newspapers [1998] EMLR 161 Skalkos v Assaf [2002] NSWCA 14 Skalkos v T S Recoveries Pty Ltd [2004] NSWCA 281 Stevens v Sullivan [2002] 1 DCLR (NSW) 138 Williams v Ward (1886) 55 LJQB 556 West and Fortunate Investments Pty Ltd v Nationwide News Pty Ltd [2003] NSWSC 767