Zeccola v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 3)

[2015] NSWSC 1007

Supreme Court of NSW

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For Australian Law.

1. Defamation
2. › pleading
3. › application by individual defendant to have proceedings against him summarily dismissed
4. › where source quoted in a newspaper article sued as a joint publisher of the whole article
5. › where action based on original interview statute-barred
6. › whether reasonably open to argue source liable as a publisher within the principles stated in Webb v Bloch
7. › consideration of Webb v Bloch in accordance with ordinary principles of principal and agent
1. Costs
2. › exceptions to the general rule that costs follow the event
3. › conduct of parties
4. › where defendants ought to have brought dismissal application forward before defences were filed