Wright v De Kauwe [No 2]

• 1. Defamation
  2. › Publication
  3. › Liability for publication
  4. › Whether defendant participated in publication of defamatory matter so as to be liable as publisher
  5. › ASX announcements
• 1. Defamation
  2. › Damages
  3. › Special damages
  4. › Causation
  5. › Whether publication of defamatory material caused plaintiff to lose opportunity to receive directors' fees and share options
  6. › Assessment of value of lost opportunity to receive share options
  7. › Loss of a chance
• 1. Costs
  2. › Calderbank offers
  3. › Whether rejection of offer was unreasonable
  4. › Significance of apology in defamation proceedings
  5. › Whether trial judge erred in weight given to adequacy of proposed apology
  6. › Whether reasonable rejection of Calderbank offer justified order that plaintiff pay defendants' party/party costs from date of offer
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Standard of appellate review
  3. › Appeal from discretionary judgment as to costs
  4. › House v The King principles
  5. › Whether outcome unreasonable or plainly unjust

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