NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Brett May v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd & Ors [2007] NSWSC 760
HEARING DATE(S) : 21.06.07
JUDGMENT DATE : 13 July 2007
JUDGMENT OF : Nicholas J
DECISION : Para 40
CATCHWORDS : DEFAMATION - pleadings - defences and reply - defences of comment, common law fair comment, statutory fair comment - grounds of defeasance - sufficiency of pleadings in reply - whether reply should be struck out - UCPR r 14.14(2)(b), r 14.28(1), r 14.38(1)(c)(ii) and (iii), r 15.1(1), r 15.28(1)(c), 15.31(1)(b)
Defamation Act 1974 s 7A, s 32(1) and (2), s 33(1) and (2), s 34(1) and (2) Defamation Act 1889 (Qld) s 14 LEGISLATION CITED : Defamation Act 1957 (Tas) s 14 Defamation Ordinance 1938 (NT) s 6A Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 r 14.14(2)(b), r 14.28(1), r 14.38(1)(c)(ii) and (iii), r 15.1(1), r 15.28(1)(c), 15.31(1)(b)
Bickel v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd [1981] 2 NSWLR 474 Branson v Bower [2002] QB 737 Cawley v Australian Consolidated Press Ltd [1981] 1 NSWLR 225 Cheng v Tse Wai Chun [2000] 3 HKLRD 418 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 CASES CITED : Hawke v Tamworth Newspaper Co Ltd [1983] 1 NSWLR 699 Harrigan v Jones [2000] NSWSC 814 Lloyd v David Syme & Co Ltd (1985) 3 NSWLR 728 NSW Aboriginal Land Council v Perkins (1998) 45 NSWLR 340 Waterhouse v Broadcasting Station 2GB Pty Ltd (1985) 1 NSWLR 58 Waterhouse v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1985) 1 NSWLR 81
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