Burden v Ainsworth [2004] NSWCA 3

Reported Decision : 59 NSWLR 506

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION : Burden v Ainsworth [2004] NSWCA 3 revised - 19/02/2004 HEARING DATE(S) : 19/12/03 JUDGMENT DATE : 17 February 2004

JUDGMENT OF : Sheller JA at 1; Giles JA at 2; Ipp JA at 3 DECISION : (1) Appeal upheld with costs (2) Set aside the orders made by primary judge in respect of the orders striking out paragraphs 6 and 7 of the amended defence and the particulars of truth that supported those paragraphs. Substitute in lieu thereof an order dismissing the strike out application in those respects.

CATCHWORDS : DEFAMATION - Defamation Act 1974 - Defences of truth and contextual truth - RES JUDICATA - Judgments in rem - Whether finding of Licensing Court conclusive - Difference between an order and a finding - Meaning of "status" in context of judgments in rem - Temporal limitation on finding of fitness - PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Abuse of process where issues previously litigated between different parties. D LEGISLATION CITED : Registered Clubs Act 1976, ss 90(1), 97, 98, Defamation Act 1974, ss 15, 16 Blair v Curran (1939) 62 CLR 464 Castrique v Imrie (1870) LR4HL 414 Clifford v Timms [1907] 2 Ch 236 Daniel v Daniel (1906) 4 CLR 563 Harvey v R (1901) AC 601 CASES CITED : Hollington v F Hewthorn & Company Limited [1943] KB 587 Niboyet v Niboyet [1878] 4 PD 1 R v O'Halloran (2000) 159 FLR 260 State Bank of New South Wales Ltd v Stenhouse Ltd [1997] Aust Torts Reports 64,077 Ampthill Peerage Case [1976] 2 All ER 411 Duchess of Kingston's Case (1776) 2 Sm, L.C., 13th ed 644 Washington H Soul, Pattinson & Co Ltd v Ogilvy (1955) 55 SR (NSW) 143 PARTIES : Leslie James Burden (Appellant) Leonard Ainsworth (Respondent) FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40256/02 COUNSEL : T Molomby SC/R Rasmussen (Appellant) R R Stitt QC/ T D Blackburn SC (Respondent) SOLICITORS : Hunt & Hunt (Appellant) Dibbs Barker Gosling (Respondent)