NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Purcell & Anor v Cruising Yacht Club of Australia Pty Ltd & Ors [2002] NSWSC 557 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20473 of 2000 HEARING DATE(S) : 11 June 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 25 June 2002
RICHARD GORDON PURCELL (First Plaintiff)
ALLURE MARKETING PTY LTD (Second Plaintiff )
v PARTIES : CRUISING YACHT CLUB OF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (First Defendant)
JOHANNE CHRISTIAN HUGO VAN KRETSCHMAR (Second Defendant)
PETER ALLAM BUSH (Third Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Levine J
T Tobin QC P Gray COUNSEL : (First and Second Plaintiffs)
T Blackburn (First, Second and Third Defendants) Berne, Murray & Tout (First and Second Plaintiffs) SOLICITORS : Corrs Chambers Westgarth (First, Second and Third Defendants) CATCHWORDS : Defamation - contextual truth - defendant's imputations bad in form - incapable of being carried LEGISLATION CITED : Defamation Act 1974 Allen v John Fairfax and Sons Pty Ltd (NSWSC, unreported, 2 December 1988) Hepburn v TCN Channel Nine (1984) 1 NSWLR 386 CASES CITED : Jackson v John Fairfax and Sons Pty Ltd (1981) 1 NSWLR 36 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Blake [2001] NSWCA 434 McBride v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2000] NSWSC 747 Waterhouse & Anor v Hickie (1995) Aust Torts Rep 81-347 DECISION : See paragraph 16
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