AAMAC Warehousing & Transport Pty Limited v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 316

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: AAMAC Warehousing & Transport Pty Limited v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 316

HEARING DATE(S): 28 September 2009

JUDGMENT DATE: 28 September 2009

JUDGMENT OF: Campbell JA

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE: 28 September 2009

DECISION: Further stay of orders refused. Applicants to pay Respondents' costs of Motion

CATCHWORDS: APPEAL - practice and procedure - Court of Appeal - stay of orders pending appeal - whether serious question to be tried - whether there was malice for the purpose of the tort of injurious falsehood - whether discretionary procedural decisions of the trial judge should be reviewed

LEGISLATION CITED: Fair Trading Act 1987

CATEGORY: Procedural and other rulings

AAMAC Warehousing & Transport Pty Ltd v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 970 AAMAC Warehousing & Transport Pty Ltd v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 1029 AAMAC Warehousing & Transport Pty Ltd v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 1030 CASES CITED: House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 Kalifair Pty Ltd v Digi tech (Australia) Ltd [2002] NSWCA 383; (2002) 55 NSWLR 737 Palmer Bruyn & Parker Pty Ltd v Parsons [2001] HCA 69; (2001) 208 CLR 388 Roberts v Bass [2002] HCA 57; (2002) 212 CLR 1

AAMAC Warehousing & Transport Pty Limited - First Applicant Peter Panayi - Second Applicant Bruce Clark - Third Applicant PARTIES: Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited - First Respondent Linton Besser - Second Respondent John Fairfax Limited - Third Respondent Fairfax Media Limited - Fourth Respondent