NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Markisic v Today-Denes & Ors [2005] NSWSC 1276
HEARING DATE(S) : 28, 29 and 30 November 2005, 1 December 2005
JUDGMENT DATE : 9 December 2005
JUDGMENT OF : Simpson J
DECISION : 1. Plaintiff's claim against the second, fourth, fifth, ninth and fifteenth defendants dismissed; 2. verdict in favour of each of those defendants; 3. judgment accordingly.
CATCHWORDS : claim in defamation - Defamation Act 1974 - fifteen defendants - three publications - defamatory imputations found by jury to have been conveyed - plaintiff absented himself from hearing - defences - justification - imputations substantially true - imputations relate to matters of public interest - contextual justification - mitigation of damages - no evidence on quantification of damages - abandonment of proceedings - publication on internet of related material - relevance of proceedings against other defendants - common publication - verdict for the defendants - statement of claim dismissed - alternatively, nominal damages only
Crimes Act 1900 s90A, s91 LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) s34 Defamation Act 1974, s7A, s15, s16, s22, s48
Bellino v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [1995] HCA 34; 185 CLR 183 Green v Schneller [2000] NSWSC 548, unreported, 19 June 2000 Hepburn v TCN Channel 9 Pty Ltd [1984] 1 NSWLR 386 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Blake [2001] NSWCA 434; 53 NSWLR 541 London Artists Ltd v Littler [1969] 2 QB 375 Markisic v Today-Denes, unreported, 3 July 2003 Markisic & Anor v Nicholson CJ [2001] NSWSC 811 Markisic & Anor v Nicholson CJ [2002] NSWSC 771 Markisic & Anor v Vizza & Ors [2001] NSWSC 1155 CASES CITED : Markisic & Anor v Commonwealth [2001] NSWSC 533 Markisic & Anor v Commonwealth of Australia [2002] NSWSC 698 Markisic & Anor v Vizza & Ors [2002] NSWCA 243 Markisic & Anor v Vizza & 16 Ors [2002] NSWCCA 53 R v Robson; R v Collett [1978] 1 NSWLR 73 R v Stuart, unreported, 20 May 1976 Teese v State Bank of NSW [2002] NSWCA 219 Webb v Bloch (1928) 41 CLR 331
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