Ezekiel-Hart v Reis (No 2)

[2019] ACTSC 192

Supreme Court of the ACT25 July 2019

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1. Practice and Procedure
2. › SUMMARY JUDGMENT
3. › Whether defamation claim made in time and maintainable
4. › whether Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT) claim made in time and maintainable
5. › where the defamation claim is statute-barred
6. › where the Human Rights Act claim is unsubstantiated
7. › where good defences are available
1. Tort
2. › DEFAMATION
3. › Whether memorandum attaching draft application circulated to Council of the Law Society of the ACT contained defamatory material
4. › whether the ACT Law Society is an “instrumentality” of the ACT Government
5. › where good defences are available
6. › where the claim is statute-barred
1. Human Rights
2. › Whether the defendants’ conduct breached ss 8, 10, 12 and 17 of the Human Rights Act
3. › where the evidence relied-upon by the plaintiff fails to substantiate the claim