Category: Imputations

Elaborate discussion in the NSW Court of Appeal over whether a contextual imporation using the phrahse “fit and proper” could be pleaded. Defamation action against the ABC over allegations of misconduct against a university researcher made by radio presenter Norman Swan ... more

Byron Bay property developer says defamation jury was perverse. It found that he did “illegal work which severely damaged the environment”, but that this was not defamatory. Court of Appeal reserved ... more

The Australian wants the NSW Court of Appeal to consider “afresh” all the factual issues in the Sleeman case. Last October Justice Levine awarded damages of $400,000 to freelance sports writer Richard Sleeman. The newspaper failed to defend Amanda Meade’s snippet in its Media section ... more

Solicitor plaintiff’s numerous imputations of extortion, bribery, unfitness and greed found not to arise from golf club newsletter and local newspaper ... more

More particulars required about the defendant’s role in publication of material on the internet ... more

A “bare reference to Mr Sin” doesn’t help Abe Saffron’s imputations ... more

Sun-Herald’s contextual imputations in “tax tears” case defective in form ... more

Dr Kerryn Phelps keeps most of her imputations in case against Piers Akerman’s anthrax outpourings ... more

Ordinary reasonable readers would treat a Sun-Herald story on Souths’ football coach as a “joke”. Imputations incapable of arising ... more

Justice Levine rejects Justice Bell’s thinking on imputations of homosexuality. He thinks it’s defamatory, although context is everything ... more

Trade unions survive challenge to standing to sue. Yet only one imputation arising from Leonie Lamont’s opinion article survives ... more

Pleadings. The word “caused” raises its head again in clunky imputations. It’s still a weasel word in all its splendid ambiguity. West Australian judge despairs at the sterility of procedural forms ... more