NSW Caselaw
Supreme Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: King v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 2) [2014] NSWSC 1244 Hearing dates: 29 August 2014 Decision date: 08 September 2014 Before: McCallum J Decision: Contextual imputations struck out Catchwords: DEFAMATION - defences - contextual truth - form of contextual imputations - requirement for precision Legislation Cited: Defamation Act 2005, s 26 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, rr 14.28, 28.2 Cases Cited: Ainsworth v Burden [2000] NSWSC 105 Ange v Fairfax Media Publications [2010] NSWSC 645 Armitage v Double Bay Newspapers Pty Ltd (unreported, NSWSC, Hunt J, 26 September 1991) Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Hodgkinson [2005] NSWCA 190 Drummoyne Municipal Council v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1990) 21 NSWLR 135 King v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2014] NSWSC 490 State of New South Wales v Deren [1999] NSWCA 22 Waller v Nationwide New Pty Ltd [2011] NSWSC 611 Category: Interlocutory applications Parties: Wallace Macarthur King (plaintiff) Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (first defendant) The Age Company Pty Ltd (second defendant) Representation: Counsel: R McHugh SC, M Richardson (plaintiff) L Barnett (defendants) Solicitors: Atanaskovic Hartnell (plaintiff) Banki Haddock Fiora (defendants) File Number(s): 2013/348650 Publication restriction: None
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