Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Pedavoli: 20 Aug 2015

(Supreme Court of New South Wales – Court of Appeal) There was a salacious article about a teacher. By reason of the inclusion of incorrect information, the article wrongly pointed to the plaintiff as the teacher in question. The principle upheld by the Court of Appeal was that the cause of action may be sustained if identification occurs later than the time of original publication, particularly if the recipient of the information is in effect invited to discover the identity of the person about whom the matter complained of is published.

Judges:

Simpson Ja, Mccoll Ja

Citations:

[2015] NSWCA 237, (2015) 326 ALR 73

Links:

Austlii

Jurisdiction:

Australia

Cited by:

CitedSimon and Others v Lyder and Another PC 29-Jul-2019
(Trinidad and Tobago) The Board was asked as to the well-known conundrum in the common law of defamation, namely the extent to which (if at all) two or more different statements made upon different occasions by the same defendant may be aggregated . .
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Defamation

Updated: 24 April 2022; Ref: scu.676325