NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Zunter [2006] NSWCA 227
HEARING DATE(S): 6 April 2006
JUDGMENT DATE: 16 August 2006
JUDGMENT OF: Spigelman CJ at 1; Handley JA at 2; McColl JA at 54
DECISION: Appeal dismissed with costs.
CATCHWORDS: DEFAMATION – defence of statutory qualified privilege – whether conduct of publisher reasonable - DEFAMATION – defence of contextual truth – whether plaintiff's imputations further injured plaintiff - DEFAMATION – Polly Peck defence – not recognised by common law of Australia - DEFAMATION – damages – mitigation – truth of contextual imputations – relevant in mitigation - D
LEGISLATION CITED: Defamation Act 1974
Advertiser-News Weekend Publishing Co Ltd v Manock (2005) 91 SASR 206 Atkinson v Fitzwalter [1987] 1 WLR 201 Austin v Mirror Newspapers Ltd [1986] AC 299 Chakravarti v Advertiser Newspapers Ltd (1998) 193 CLR 519 Cohen v Mirror Newspapers Ltd [1971] 1 NSWLR 623 David Syme & Co Ltd v Hore-Lacy [2000] 1 VR 654 Howden v Truth and Sportsman Ltd (No 2) (1938) 38 SR (NSW) 287 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Blake (2001) 53 NSWLR 541 John Pfeiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson (2000) 203 CLR 503 CASES CITED: Morgan v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd [No 2] (1991) 23 NSWLR 374 Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Moodie (2003) 28 WAR 314 Palmer v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd (1986) 5 NSWLR 727 Pamplin v Express Newspapers Ltd [1988] 1 WLR 116 Plato Films Ltd v Speidel [1961] AC 1090 Polly Peck (Holdings) plc v Trelford [1986] QB 1000 Preger v Times Newspapers Ltd [1988] 1 WLR 77 Robinson v Laws [2003] 1 Qd R 81 Scott v Sampson (1882) 8 QBD 491 Uren v John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd (1966) 117 CLR 118
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate