A company's Australian Company Number (ACN) is a unique identifier that can sufficiently identify a corporate plaintiff in defamation proceedings, even where the publication uses an incorrect company name. The ACN is a 'virtual branding' of a corporate entity upon incorporation and can refer to no other body. A jury might conclude the publisher used the ACN to make identification certain.
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