Poniatowska v Channel Seven Sydney Pty Ltd (No 4)

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Judgments and Orders
  3. › Setting aside or varying judgments
  4. › Power to set aside perfected judgment
  5. › Whether court may set aside appellate judgment after perfection of orders
  6. › Whether misapprehension of fact or law established
  7. › Uniform Civil Rules 2020 (SA), r 186.1
• 1. Appeal
  2. › General Principles
  3. › Finality of litigation
  4. › Application to reopen appellate judgment
  5. › Distinction between misapprehension of fact and disagreement with evaluative judgment
  6. › Whether jurisdiction exercised to re-agitate arguments already considered
• 1. Damages
  2. › Defamation
  3. › Assessment of economic loss
  4. › Loss of earning capacity
  5. › Whether court misapprehended evidence of psychiatric incapacity
  6. › Whether court erred in assessment of employment prospects and earnings
• 1. Damages
  2. › Defamation
  3. › Aggravated damages
  4. › Conduct of defence
  5. › Whether defence of justification was improper or unjustifiable
  6. › Whether objective or subjective test applies
  7. › Whether defective pleading entails unjustifiable conduct

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