Hanna v Maks

[2003] NSWSC 158

CITATION:

HANNA v MAKS [2003] NSWSC 158

HEARING DATE(S):

14 February 2003
25 February 2003
6 March 2003

JUDGMENT DATE:

19 March 2003

JUDGMENT OF:

Levine J

DECISION:

1. I remove the action from the Registrar's Defamation Directions List on 21 March 2003.; 2. I dismiss the action against the defendants as an abuse of process of the Court.; 3. I order the plaintiff to pay the costs of the first and second defendants of the action and of the Notice of Motion.; 4. I order the plaintiff to pay the costs of the third to fifty-fourth defendants or any expenses incurred by them in respect of the initiation of the proceedings by the Statement of Claim filed on 8 January 2003. I reserve liberty to each such defendant to apply to the Defamation List Registrar in this regard.; 5. I order that the exhibits be retained for 28 days. In the event that no proceedings to appeal these orders has been instituted they may be returned to the parties by the Registry.

CATCHWORDS:

Abuse of process

LEGISLATION CITED:

Defamation Act 19974 s50(4)

CASES CITED:

Goldsmith v Sperrings Ltd (1977) 1 WLR 478
Packer v Meagher (1984) 3 NSWLR 486
Webb v Bloch (1928) 41 CLR 331
Williams v Spautz (1992) 174 CLR 509

PARTIES :

FIKRY MAKS
(First Defendant)

MONA ADLY MAKS
(Second Defendant)

NABIL NESSIM MALAK
(Third Defendant)

MARK MERCURIUS
(Fourth Defendant)

SAFWAT EL-BANNA
(Fifth Defendant)

KAMEL HANNA
(Sixth Defendant)

Drs NOFRET & FOUAD DAOOD
(Seventh Defendants)

Dr HALA GIRGES
(Eighth Defendant)

KAMAL MOUSSA
(Ninth Defendant)

MAGED GENDAY
(Tenth Defendant)

SAMY FARAH
(Eleventh Defendant)

MAGY ABDEL KODOUS
(Twelfth Defendant)

LYDIA ISAAC
(Thirteenth Defendant)

HEBA STAPHANOS
(Fourteenth Defendant)

PHILIP SOLEIMAN
(Fifteenth Defendant)

BILL
(Sixteenth Defendant)

RAOOF MERHEM
(Seventeenth Defendant)

BOUSHRA GADDALLAH
(Eighteenth Defendant)

MOURAD ABDELMALEK
(Nineteenth Defendant)

PETER KIROLOS
(Twentieth Defendant)

GEORGE MITTAS
(Twenty-first Defendant)

Dr MEDHAT YACOUB
(Twenty-second Defendant)

CHARLES BEIRAKDAR
(Twenty-third Defendant)

GEORGE FANOUS
(Twenty-fourth Defendant)

NAGY & NAJWA SOLEIMAN
(Twenty-fifth Defendants)

HANY HABIB
(Twenty-sixth Defendant)

EFFAT FARAG
(Twenty-seventh Defendant)

ADEL SLEIMAN
(Twenty-eighth Defendant)

MAKRAM KHALIL
(Twenty-ninth Defendant)

GAMAL NASHED
(Thirtieth Defendant)

OAKLEIGH TRAVEL CENTRE
(Thirty-first Defendant)

Dr HANI TAWFIK
(Thirty-secondDefendant)

Dr ADEL ZAIED
(Thirty-third Defendant)

GHALI GHALI
(Thirty-fourth Defendant)

MORRIS TADROS
(Thirty-fifth Defendant)

ENJI PRINTING
(Thirty-sixth Defendant)

ZAHER BICHAY
(Thirty-seventh Defendant)

GOLDEN FOOD STAR
(Thirty-eighth Defendant)

MAGDY BOUTROS
(Thirty-ninth Defendant)

SAMIR BASILIOUS
(Fortieth Defendant)

MICHAEL SABONGI
(Forty-first Defendant)

RAFIC & HANI MICHAEL
(Forty-second Defendants)

JOHN DCAN
(Forty-third Defendant)

NAJWA HANNA
(Forty-fourth Defendant)

ASHRAF BECHAY
(Forty-fifth Defendant)

FARAH MANSOUR
(Forty-sixth Defendant)

TERESA NICOLA
(Forty-seventh Defendant)

S ESKANDER
(Forty-eighth Defendant)

GOLDEN FOOD STAR
(Forty-ninth Defendant)

YOUSRY GHALY
(Fiftieth Defendant)

MOFID BEBAWY
(Fifty-first Defendant)

REFAT BECHAY
(Fifty-second Defendant)

RAFIK GHOBRIAL
(Fifty-third Defendant)

WANIS WANIS
(Fifty-fourth Defendant)

FILE NUMBER(S):

SC 20002 OF 2003

COUNSEL:

Plaintiff - in person

R McHugh
(Defendant)

SOLICITORS:

Corrs Chambers Westgarth
(Defendant)

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IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF NEW SOUTH WALES
COMMON LAW DIVISION
DEFAMATION LIST

JUSTICE DAVID LEVINE

WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH 2003

20002 OF 2003

FAYEZ PHILIPPE HANNA
(Plaintiff)

v

Fikry Maks
(First…