Chel v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 8) [2017] NSWSC 1315

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Chel v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 8) [2017] NSWSC 1315 Hearing dates: On the papers Date of orders: 29 September 2017 Decision date: 29 September 2017 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Beech-Jones J Decision: (1) Judgment for the plaintiff against the defendants for $120,268.49.

(2) The first and second defendants pay three quarters of the plaintiff's costs of the proceedings on the ordinary basis, other than the costs the subject of order 5 made by the Court of Appeal on 2 December 2015. Catchwords: INTEREST AND COSTS – defamation proceedings – plaintiff succeeded on some imputations – relief on offer of compromise – whether to order otherwise – whether mixed success on imputations warrants otherwise ordering – whether findings as to plaintiff's credibility warrants otherwise ordering – whether response to notice to admit warrants otherwise ordering Legislation Cited: Defamation Act 2005, s 40(2)(a) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules, r 20.26, 42 Cases Cited: Ahmed v Harbour Radio 14 March 2014 (unreported) Chel v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 2) [2017] NSWSC 58 Chel v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 3) [2017] NSWSC 61 Chel v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 4) [2017] NSWSC 107 Chel v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 5) [2017] NSWSC 135 Chel v Fairfax Media Publications (No 6) [2017] NSWSC 230 Chel v Fairfax Media Publications (No 7) [2017] NSWSC 996 Chel v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2017] NSWSC 56 Holt v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd (No 2) [2012] 968 Holt v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd [2014] NSWCA 90; 86 NSWLR 96 Jones v Sutton (No 2) [2005] NSWCA 203 Category: Costs Parties: Lili Chel (Plaintiff) Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (First Defendant) Vanda Carson (Second Defendant) Representation: Counsel: C Evatt; R Rasmussen (Plaintiff) L Barnett (Defendants)