NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Marsden v Amalgamated Television Services Pty Limited [2000] NSWSC 280 revised - 10/04/2000 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20223 of 1995; 20592 of 1996 HEARING DATE(S) : 3 April 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 3 April 2000
JOHN MARSDEN
PARTIES : v
AMALGAMATED TELEVISION SERVICES PTY LIMITED JUDGMENT OF : Levine J at 1
I Barker QC M R Hall (Plaintiff) COUNSEL : W H Nicholas QC J S Wheelhouse (Defendant) Phillips Fox (Plaintiff) SOLICITORS : Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Admissibility - relevance - qualified privilege - common law - s22 Defamation Act - Lange defendant - matter complained - imputations - information - belief in truths - T5128. LEGISLATION CITED : Defamation Act, 1974. CASES CITED : Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1997) 189 CLR 520; Morgan v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd [No.2] (1991) 23 NSWLR 344; Austin v Mirror Newspapers Limited (1985) 3 NSWLR 354. DECISION : See paragraph 28.
DLJT: 131 (Ex Tempore - Revised) [2000] NSWSC 280
THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COMMON LAW DIVISION DEFAMATION LIST
No. 20223 of 1995 No. 20592 of 1996
JUSTICE DAVID LEVINE
MONDAY 3 APRIL 2000
JOHN MARSDEN (Plaintiff)
v
AMALGAMATED TELEVISION SERVICES PTY LIMITED ACN 000 145 246 (Defendant)
JUDGMENT - (Admissibility - relevance - qualified privilege - common law - s22 Defamation Act, 1974 - Lange defence - matter complained - imputations - information - belief in truths - T5128)
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