Liu v The Age Company & Ors [2010] NSWSC 1176

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Liu v The Age Company & Ors [2010] NSWSC 1176

HEARING DATE(S) : 11 October 2010 to 12 October 2010

JUDGMENT DATE : 14 October 2010

JUDGMENT OF : McCallum J

DECISION : Publication of reasons for granting adjournment and evidentiary rulings

CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - application for preliminary discovery seeking identification of journalists' sources - whether an interlocutory proceeding - where defendants sought to rely on evidence on information and belief from the very sources the identification of whom is sought in the proceeding without identifying those sources - whether such evidence admissible under the exception to the hearsay rule in s75 of the Evidence Act - reasons for granting adjournment enabling both parties to address by direct evidence matters previously sought to be proved only by evidence on information and belief

Uniform Civil Procedure Rules LEGISLATION CITED : Civil Procedure Act 2005 Limitation Act 1969 Evidence Act 1995

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Levis v McDonald (1997) 75 FCR 36 Hall v Nominal Defendant (1966) 117 CLR 423 Ex Parte Britt (1987) 1 Qd R 221 Herald & Weekly Times Ltd v Guide Dog Owners & Friends Assoc [1990] VR 451 Brouwer v Titan Corp Ltd (1997) 73 FCR 241 CASES CITED : London Economics (Aust) Pty Ltd v Frontier Economics Pty Ltd [1999] FCA 932 Optiver Australia Pty Ltd v Tibra Trading Pty Ltd [2007] FCA 156 Bray v F Hoffman-La Roche Limited [2002] FCA 243 Wily v Terra Cresta Business Solutions Pty Ltd [2006] NSWSC 949 New South Crime Commission v Vu [2009] NSWCA 349 John Fairfax and Sons Limited v Cojuangco (1988) 165 CLR 346