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CITATION : Nassif v Nationwide News Pty Limited [2000] NSWSC 269 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20347/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 16 April 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 6 April 2000
PARTIES : Yvonne NASSIF - Plaintiff NATIONWIDE NEWS PTY LIMITED - Defendant JUDGMENT OF : Simpson J at 1
COUNSEL : Mr M Rollinson - Plaintiff Mr T Blackburn - Defendant SOLICITORS : Hovan & Co - Plaintiff Blake Dawson Waldron - Defendant Nassif v Nationwide News Pty Limited [1999] NSWSC 150, 5 March 1999 Mirror Newspapers v Harrison (1982) 149 CLR 293 at 301 Grubb v Bristol United Press Limited [1963] 1 QB 309, 324 CASES CITED : Tolley v J S Fry and Sons limited [1930] 1 KB 467 O'Brien v Wilson and Horton Limited (1971) NZLR 386 Burrows v Knightly (1987) 10 NSWLR 651 at 656 Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd v Marsden (1998) 43 NSWLR 158 DECISION : (i) The plaintiff's application for leave to amend the statement of claim by adding an allegation of true innuendo is refused;; (ii) the defendant's application to strike out imputation (d) is refused;; (iii) costs reserved.
THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COMMON LAW DIVISION
SIMPSON J
Thursday 6 April 2000
20347/98
Yvonne NASSIF v NATIONWIDE NEWS PTY LIMITED JUDGMENT
HER HONOUR : 1 On 8 September 1998 the plaintiff commenced proceedings in defamation as a result of the publication on 24 April 1998 by the defendant of a newspaper article which identified her as the fiance of a Louis Bayeh, who, it was said in the article, was an "underworld figure". The article purported to be a report of a hearing of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). Accompanying the article was a large photograph of the plaintiff apparently holding and speaking into a mobile telephone. She was standing in front of a garage roller door on which was painted, in large block letters, the words "ANY TIME". Under the photograph was a caption stating that the photograph was taken "outside the Commission hearing". 2 There was also a boxed inset to the article, headed "Louis' faithful Yvonne", referring to the plaintiff by name, and purporting to describe her attendance at the ICAC hearing. 3 In her original statement of claim the plaintiff pleaded that five imputations, numbered (a) to (e), arose from the natural and ordinary meaning of the words and photograph. The imputations pleaded were:
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