NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Palace Films Pty Ltd & Ors v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd & Ors [2010] NSWSC 415
HEARING DATE(S) : 30 April 2010
JUDGMENT DATE : 14 May 2010
JURISDICTION : Common Law
JUDGMENT OF : McCallum J
DECISION : (1) The whole of the statement of claim is struck out with leave to replead. (2) I will hear the parties further as to costs.
CATCHWORDS : DEFAMATION - publication and republication - whether properly pleaded - allegation that defendants "wrote and published or caused to be written and published" - imputations - whether bad in form or incapable of arising - BREACH OF CONFIDENCE - whether claim inconsistent with claim in defamation
LEGISLATION CITED : Defamation Act 1974 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings
Chesterton v Radio 2UE Sydney Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 47 David Syme & Co Limited v Grey (1992) 38 FCR 303 Dow Jones & Company Inc v Gutnick [2002] HCA 56; 210 CLR 575 Griffith v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2003] NSWSC 298 Habib v Radio 2UE Sydney Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 231 CASES CITED : Harvey v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 255 Nationwide News Pty Limited v Warton [2002] NSWCA 377 Sims v Wran (1984) 1 NSWLR 317 Speight v Gosnay (1891) 60 LJQB 231 Toomey v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1985) 1 NSWLR 173 Webb v Bloch (1928) 41 CLR 331; (1928) 2 ALJR 282
TEXTS CITED : Gatley on Libel and Slander, 9th ed (1998); 10th ed (2004); 11th ed (2008) Starkey on the Law of Slander and Liable, 1st ed (1830)
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