References: [2008] NSWCA 66
Links: Austlii
Coram: Spigelman CJ Hodgson JA McColl JA
Austlii (Supreme Court of New South Wales – Court of Appeal) DEFAMATION – nature of- actual disparagement of the plaintiff’s reputation – reputation includes general character and standing and trade, business or professional reputation – DEFAMATION – what is defamatory – requires publication likely to cause ordinary decent folk in the community, taken in general, to think the less of plaintiff – DEFAMATION – nature of injury to business reputation – whether to be determined by reference to whether publication likely to cause ordinary decent folk in the community, taken in general, to think the less of plaintiff – JURY – directions to jury as to standards by which to determine whether an imputation injures plaintiff’s trade, business or professional reputation
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