NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: BASS v TCN CHANNEL NINE PTY LTD [2006] NSWCA 343
HEARING DATE(S): 1 September 2006
JUDGMENT DATE: 13 December 2006
JUDGMENT OF: Handley JA at 1; Basten JA at 2; Hunt AJA at 3
DECISION: 1. The appeal is dismissed.; 2. The appellant is to pay the respondent's costs.
CATCHWORDS: Defamation — jury at first trial finds imputation that plaintiff a shonky operator true — new trial ordered of second imputation that plaintiff could not be relied upon to pay his employees money due to them — relevance in new trial of jury finding that the first imputation was true — meaning of word "shonky" — issue estoppel on credit issue. Issue on malice raised for the first time at end of new trial after counsel for defendant finished address — elapse of fourteen years since publication — not in plaintiff's particulars — whether plaintiff should be permitted to raise issue at that late stage — obligation to give particulars.
LEGISLATION CITED: Defamation Act 1974 Defamation (Amendment) Act 1994
Ainsworth v Burden [2005] NSWCA 174Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd v Marsden (1998) 43 NSWLR 158 Australian Consolidated Press Ltd v Uren (1966) 117 CLR 185 Bass v Permanent Trustee Co Ltd (1999) 198 CLR 334 Bass v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd (2003) 60 NSWLR 251 Bass v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd, Court of Appeal, 13 December 2005, unreported Bailey v FCT (1977) 136 CLR 214 Chappell v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1984) Aust Torts Reports §80 691 Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd v Thomson (1964) 81 WN (NSW) 553 Dare v Pulham (1982) 148 CLR 658Dingle v Associated Newspapers Ltd [1964] AC 371 Emmerton v University of Sydney [1970] 2 NSWR 633 Fidelitas Shipping Co Ltd v V/O Exportchleb [1966] 1 QB 630 Harvey v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 255 Howden v Truth & Sportsman Ltd (1937) 56 CLR 416 CASES CITED: Howden v Truth & Sportsman Ltd (No 2) 38 SR (NSW) 287 Kelly v Kelly (1950) 50 SR (NSW) 261 John Fairfax Publishing Pty Ltd v Zunter [2006] NSWCA 227 Leotta v Public Transport Commission of NSW (1976) 9 ALR 437 Loveday v Sun Newspapers Ltd (1938) 59 CLR 503 Mirror Newspapers Ltd v Fitzpatrick [1984] 1 NSWLR 643 O'Toole v Charles David Pty Ltd (1990) 171 CLR 232 Petritsis v Hellenic Herald Pty Ltd [1978] 2 NSWLR 174 Philliponi v Leithead (1959) 59 SR (NSW) 353 Rex v Associated Northern Collieries (1910) 11 CLR 738 Rigby v Associated Newspapers Ltd (No 2) [1969] 1 NSWR 729 Singleton v Ffrench (1986) 5 NSWLR 425 Speidel v Plato Films Ltd [1961] AC 1090 Turner v Dalgety & Co Ltd (1952) 69 WN (NSW) 228 Vlasic v Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd (1976) 9 ACTR 1
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