NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Edward Hayson v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd [2007] NSWSC 763
HEARING DATE(S) : 22.06.07, 09.07.07
JUDGMENT DATE : 13 July 2007
JUDGMENT OF : Nicholas J
DECISION : Para 52
CATCHWORDS : DEFAMATION – pleadings – whether contextual imputations capable of arising – specificity of contextual imputations – sufficiency of particulars in support of contextual imputations – whether contextual truth defences should be struck out under r 14.28 or summarily dismissed under the court's inherent jurisdiction – Civil Procedure Rules 2005 s 56, s 57, s 60, s 64 and s 91(1) – UCPR r 14.28(1), r 14.31(2)(b), r 14.33(2), r 15.1(1), r 15.21(1)(c), r 15.23(2), r 15.25, r 28.2
Defamation Act 2005 s 26 LEGISLATION CITED : Civil Procedure Act 2005 s 56, s 57, s 60, s 64, s 91(1) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 r 14.28(1)(a) and (b), r 14.31(2)(b), r 14.33(2)(a), (b) and (c), r 15.1(1), r 15.21(1)(c), r 15.23(2), r 15.25, r 28.2
Agar v Hyde (2000) 201 CLR 552 Armitage v Double Bay Newspapers Pty Ltd [Unreported, NSWSC, 26 September 1991] Australian Broadcasting Corp v Hodgkinson [2005] NSWCA 190 Brimson v Rocla Concrete Pipes Ltd (1982) 2 NSWLR 937 Douglas & Anor v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd & Anor (1983) 3 NSWLR 126 Favell v Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd [2005] HCA 52 General Steel Industries Inc. v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Blake (2001) 53 NSWLR 541 John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Gacic [2007] HCA 28 CASES CITED : John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Rivkin (2003) 77 ALJR 1657 Jackson & Ors v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd [Unreported, NSWSC, 17 October 1996] Lewis v Daily Telegraph Ltd [1964] AC 234 Marsden v Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd [Unreported, NSWSC, 17 December 1996] NRMA Insurance Ltd v Amalgamated Television Services Pty Ltd [Unreported, NSWSC, 14 July 1989] Peter Kent Development Pty Ltd v The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [Unreported, NSWSC, 6 May 1980] Penthouse Publications Ltd v McWilliam [Unreported, NSWCA, 14 March 1991] Turner v Bulletin Newspaper Co Pty Ltd (1974) 131 CLR 26 Vella v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 615 Wickstead & Ors v Browne (1992) 30 NSWLR 1 Sergi v Australian Broadcasting Commission ([983] 2 NSWLR 669
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