NSW Caselaw
Supreme Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: Ell v Milne (No 3) [2012] NSWSC 985 Hearing dates: 13 August 2012 Decision date: 14 August 2012 Before: McCallum J Decision: Defendant's application for leave to replead contextual imputations refused. Defendant to pay plaintiff's costs of the application. Catchwords: DEFAMATION - defences - contextual truth - whether truth innuendo capable of establishing defence where plaintiff's imputations alleged to arise on ordinary and natural meaning of the matter complained of - whether particulars capable of establishing truth of imputation Legislation Cited: Defamation Act 1974 Defamation Act 2005 Cases Cited: Besser v Kermode [2011] NSWCA 174 David Syme & Co Ltd v Grey (1992) 38 FCR 303 Ell v Milne [2011] NSWSC 645 Ell v Milne (No 2) [2012] NSWSC 259 Gross v Weston [2007] NSWCA 1 Hughes v Mirror Newspapers Limited (1985) 3 NSWLR 504 McMahon v John Fairfax Publications Pty Limited [2010] NSWCA 308 McMahon v John Fairfax Publications Pty Limited, 8 March 2010 (unreported); McMahon v John Fairfax Publications Pty Limited (No 6) [2012] NSWSC 224 Category: Interlocutory applications Parties: Robert Ell Katie Milne Representation: Counsel: T Tobin QC, B Kelleher (plaintiff) S Molomby (defendant) Solicitors: Stacks/The Law Firm (plaintiff) NLS Law Pty Ltd (defendant) File Number(s): 2010/417266 Publication restriction: None
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