NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Ray Chesterton v Radio 2UE Sydney Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 982
HEARING DATE(S) : 8 February 2010 - 12 February 2010
JUDGMENT DATE : 1 September 2010
JUDGMENT OF : McCallum J
DECISION : Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $90,000.
CATCHWORDS : DEFAMATION - defences - common law qualified privilege - reply to attack - elements of defence - whether necessary for defendant to establish "proportionality" between reply and attack - test for determining what is an attack - DEFAMATION - damages - whether broadcast caused hurt to feelings and harm to reputation as claimed.
LEGISLATION CITED : Defamation Act 1974
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Loveday v Sun Newspapers Ltd (1938) 59 CLR 503 Adam v Ward [1917] AC 309 Bass v TCN Channel Nine (2003) 60 NSWLR 251 Aktas v Westpac Banking Corporation [2009] NSWCA 9 Aktas v Westpac Banking Corporation [2010] HCA 25 Webb v Bloch (1928) 41 CLR 331 Penton v Calwell (1945) 70 CLR 219 Turner v Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd [1950] 1 All ER 449 CASES CITED : Megna v Marshall [2010] NSWSC 686 Assaf v Skalkos [2000] NSWSC 418 Skalkos v Assaf [2002] NSWCA 14 Trad v Harbour Radio Pty Limited [2009] NSWSC 750 Toogood v Spyring (1834) 1 Cr M & R 181 Nigel Watts v Times Newspapers Ltd [1995] EWCA Civ 45 Hamilton v Clifford [2004] EWHC 1542 QB Carson v John Fairfax & Sons Limited [1993] HCA 31; 178 CLR 44 Uren v John Fairfax (1966) 117 CLR 118 at 150
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