McKay v Nationwide News Pty Ltd; McKay v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd; McKay v The Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2016] NSWSC 1719

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: McKay v Nationwide News Pty Ltd; McKay v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd; McKay v The Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2016] NSWSC 1719 Hearing dates: 25 November 2016 Decision date: 25 November 2016 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: McCallum J Decision: Defendants' objections to the form of pleading rejected Catchwords: DEFAMATION – pleadings – objections to imputations – imputation that the plaintiff had been detained on suspicion of murder – failure to identify the holder of the suspicion – where matter complained of did not provide that detail – whether imputation bad in form Cases Cited: Jackson v John Fairfax & Sons [1981] 1 NSWLR 36 Purcell v Cruising Yacht Club [2003] NSWSC 245 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: 2016/304794: Sun McKay (plaintiff) Nationwide News Pty Ltd (1st defendant) The Herald and Weekly Times (2nd defendant) News Life Media Pty Ltd (3rd defendant)

2016/304799 Sun McKay (plaintiff) Fairfax Media Publications (1st defendant) The Age Company Ltd (2nd defendant)

2016/304800 Sun McKay (plaintiff) The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (defendant) Representation: Counsel: M Richardson (plaintiff in proceedings 2016/304794, 2016/304799 and 2016/304800) L Barnett (defendants in proceedings 2016/304794, 2016/304799 and 2016/304800)