NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Brigg v Reid & Anor [2002] NSWSC 80 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20053 of 1999 HEARING DATE(S) : 18 February 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 22 February 2002
DAVID STEWART BRIGGS (Plaintiff)
v PARTIES : MICHAEL REID (First Defendant)
STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES (Second Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Levine J
D Caspersonn (Plaintiff) COUNSEL : M Lynch (Defendants) R J O'Halloran & Co (Plaintiff) SOLICITORS : NSW Crown Solicitor's Office (Defendants) CATCHWORDS : On application to strike out contextual truth defence LEGISLATION CITED : Defamation Act 1974 Blake v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 885 Haertsch v Andrews & Anor [1999] NSWSC 359 CASES CITED : Hepburn v TCN Channel Nine Pty Limited (1984) 1 NSWLR 386 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Blake [2001] NSWCA 434 Matheson v Kennedy & Anor (Hunt J, unreported, 3 November 1989) DECISION : See paragraphs 19 to 21
DLJ: 2 [2002] NSWSC 80 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COMMON LAW DIVISION D efamation list
JUSTICE DAVID LEVINE
Friday 22 February 2002
20053 of 1999
DAVID STEWART BRIGGS (P laintiff )
V
MICHAEL REID (First Defendant)
STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES (S econd Defendant )
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