Marsden v Amalgamated Television Services Pty Limited

[2000] NSWSC 196

CITATION:

Marsden v Amalgamated Television Services Pty Limited [2000] NSWSC 196

CURRENT JURISDICTION:

Common Law

FILE NUMBER(S):

SC 20223 of 1995; 20592 of 1996

HEARING DATE(S):

20 March 2000

JUDGMENT DATE:

20 March 2000

PARTIES :

JOHN MARSDEN
(Plaintiff)

v

AMALGAMATED TELEVISION SERVICES PTY LIMITED
(Defendant)

JUDGMENT OF:

Levine J

COUNSEL :	I Barker Q.C. M R Hall (Plaintiff) R Stitt Q.C. J S Wheelhouse (Defendant)
SOLICITORS:	Phillips Fox (Plaintiff) Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Defendant)
CATCHWORDS:	Admissibility - Child Welfare Records - T4870 - relevant to defence of qualified privilege
DECISION:	See paragraph 2

DLJT: 123
(Ex Tempore - Revised)
[2000] NSWSC 196

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

No. 20223 of 1995
No. 20592 of 1996

JUSTICE DAVID LEVINE

MONDAY 20 MARCH 2000

JOHN MARSDEN
(Plaintiff)

v

AMALGAMATED TELEVISION SERVICES PTY LIMITED
ACN 000 145 246
(Defendant)


JUDGMENT (Admissibility - Child Welfare Records - T4870 - relevant to defence of qualified privilege)

1    HIS HONOUR: The second bundle will be admitted as Exhibit CB. It is material on which the plaintiff proposes to rely to defeat the defence of qualified privilege. 2    I note the plaintiff's "assertion" at the time of the tender, and I stress the word "assertion" that it was material available to the defendant in relation to a person who appeared on both programs, and in the context of the first programme having been published, proceedings had been instituted before the publication of the second program.

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