NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Griffith v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2002] NSWSC 86 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20300/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 6th - 8th November 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 28 February 2002
PARTIES : Jeremy Norman GRIFFITH & Ors AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION & Ors JUDGMENT OF : Simpson J
KP Smark (Plaintiffs) COUNSEL : BW Walker SC with R Glasson (1st, 2nd, 6th Defendants) DA Caspersonn (3rd Defendant) Schweizer & Company (Plaintiffs) SOLICITORS : Judith Walker, ABC - for 1st, 2nd, and 6th Defendants Phillips Fox - for 3rd Defendant 4th & 5th Defendants - (Rosemary Whelan and Howard Whelan) in person CATCHWORDS : defamation - pleadings - imputations LEGISLATION CITED : Limitation Act (1950) (NZ) Defamation Act (1992) (NZ) Singleton v John Fairfax and Sons Ltd (unreported, 20 February 1980) Singleton v Ffrench (1986) 5 NSWLR 425 Amalgamated Television Services v Marsden (1998) 43 NSWLR 158 David Syme, and Co v Canavan (1918) 25 CLR 234 CASES CITED : McCormick v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd (1989) 16 NSWLR 485 Phillips v Eyre (1870) LR 6QB 1 McKain v R. W. Miller and Co (SA) Pty Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 1 John Pfeiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson [2000] HCA 36; 203 CLR 503 Regie National Des Usines Renalut SA v Fuzu Zhang [HCA - reserved] DECISION : Challenges to various imputations determined.
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