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New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Rivkin v Amalgamated Television Services Pty Limited (ACN 000 145 246) [2001] NSWSC 432 revised - 28/05/2001 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20086/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 23/5/01 JUDGMENT DATE : 28 May 2001
PARTIES : Rene Rivkin (Plaintiff) Amalgamated Television Services Pty Limited (ACN 000 145 246) (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Bell J at 1
COUNSEL : B. McClintock SC / M. Richardson (Plaintiff) R. Stitt QC / M. Lynch (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Gilbert & Tobin (Plaintiff) Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Defamation - imputations - challenge to capacity to defame - assertion of homosexual intercourse Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 Crimes Act 1900 Defamation Act 1974 LEGISLATION CITED : Migration Act 1958 Property (Relationships) Act 1984 Workplace Relations Act 1996 Supreme Court Rules 1970 Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd v Marsden (1998) 43 NSWLR 158 CASES CITED : Lewis v Daily Telegraph Ltd [1964] AC 234 Quilty v Windsor (1999) SLT 346 Reader's Digest Services Propriety Limited v Lamb (1981 - 1982) 150 CLR 500 DECISION : Imputations (a) & (b) to go to the jury. Imputations (c) & (d) struck out - leave to re-plead
THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COMMON LAW DIVISION
BELL J 28 May 2001 20086/98 - Rene RIVKIN v AMALGAMATED TELEVISION SERVICES PTY LTD ACN (000 145 246)
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