Habib v Nationwide News Pty Ltd 46

[2010] NSWCA 34; (2010) 76 NSWLR 299; [2010] Aust Torts Reports 82-052

Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal

Australia - New South Wales

16th March, 2010

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R v Lynn (Rulings 1 ‑ 4)	[2024] VSC 373	Supreme Court of Victoria	Australia - Victoria	28 Jun 2024	AustLII	2
Wilks v Qu (Ruling	[2024] VCC 1009	County Court of Victoria	Australia - Victoria	5 Jul 2024	AustLII
R v DJL	[2024] NSWDC 165	District Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	10 May 2024	AustLII
Greiss v Seven Network (Operations) Ltd (No 2)	[2024] FCA 98	Federal Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	20 Feb 2024	AustLII	3
R v Musa (No 3)	[2023] NSWSC 328	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	4 Apr 2023	AustLII
R v Rumsby	[2023] NSWSC 229	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	16 Mar 2023	AustLII	3
Srecko and David Lorbek v Peter King	[2022] VSC 218	Supreme Court of Victoria	Australia - Victoria	5 May 2022	AustLII	6
DPP (Cth) v Halis (Ruling	[2021] VCC 243	County Court of Victoria	Australia - Victoria	14 Mar 2021	AustLII
Cook v Flaherty	[2021] SASC 73	Supreme Court of South Australia	Australia - South Australia	17 Jun 2021	AustLII	5
R v Visagie	[2021] NTSC 73	Supreme Court of the Northern Territory	Australia - Northern Territory	24 Sep 2021	AustLII	1
R v Cranston (No 9)	[2021] NSWSC 1413	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	4 Nov 2021	AustLII	7
R v Kilincer (No 2)	[2021] NSWSC 829	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	8 Jul 2021	AustLII	2
R v Rahim; R v Rizk	[2021] NSWSC 742	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	24 Jun 2021	AustLII
Green v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd	[2020] WASC 250	Supreme Court of Western Australia	Australia - Western Australia	3 Jul 2020	AustLII	4
DPP (Vic) v Hou	[2020] VSCA 190; (2020) 62 VR 1	Supreme Court of Victoria - Court of Appeal	Australia - Victoria	30 Jul 2020	AustLII	5
Douglass v R	[2020] NSWCCA 284	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Criminal Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	2 Nov 2020	AustLII	7
Weeks v Nationwide News Pty Ltd (No 4)	[2019] WASC 350	Supreme Court of Western Australia	Australia - Western Australia	2 Oct 2019	AustLII	3
Charan v Nationwide News Pty Ltd	[2019] VSCA 36	Supreme Court of Victoria - Court of Appeal	Australia - Victoria	6 Mar 2019	AustLII	14
Tsamis v Victoria (No 5)	[2019] VSC 590	Supreme Court of Victoria	Australia - Victoria	16 Aug 2019	AustLII
R v Downs	[2019] NTSC 7	Supreme Court of the Northern Territory	Australia - Northern Territory	5 Feb 2019	AustLII	4
Deacon v R	[2019] NTCCA 21; (2019) 282 A Crim R 303	Supreme Court of the Northern Territory - Court of Criminal Appeal	Australia - Northern Territory	11 Oct 2019	AustLII	5
R v Tarantino (No 6)	[2019] NSWSC 1174	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	6 Sep 2019	AustLII	9
R v HG; R v We (No 1)	[2019] NSWSC 573	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	24 Jul 2018	AustLII	1
R v CS	[2019] NSWDC 875	District Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	20 Sep 2019	AustLII	1
Fenn v Australian Broadcasting Corporation	[2018] VSC 449	Supreme Court of Victoria	Australia - Victoria	15 Aug 2018	AustLII	1
Rush v Nationwide News Pty Ltd (No 6)	[2018] FCA 1851	Federal Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	6 Nov 2018	AustLII	11
R v Eastman (No 28)	[2018] ACTSC 2	Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory	Australia - Australian Capital Territory	17 Jan 2018	AustLII
R v Mackie	[2017] NSWSC 1211	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	12 Sep 2017	AustLII
Lee v Kwak	[2017] NSWDC 202	District Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	3 Aug 2017	AustLII
Raad v New South Wales	[2017] NSWDC 63	District Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	23 Mar 2017	AustLII	5
Reilly v New South Wales	[2016] NSWDC 234	District Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	27 Sep 2016	AustLII
Abou-Lokmeh v Harbour Radio Pty Ltd	[2016] NSWCA 228	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	25 Aug 2016	AustLII	28
Giani v Queensland Television Ltd	[2015] QDC 286	District Court of Queensland	Australia - Queensland	18 Nov 2015	AustLII	3
R v BL	[2015] NTSC 85	Supreme Court of the Northern Territory	Australia - Northern Territory	17 Dec 2015	AustLII	2
Varty v DPP (NSW)	[2015] NSWSC 304	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	25 Mar 2015	AustLII	5
R v Evans	[2015] ACTSC 137	Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory	Australia - Australian Capital Territory	5 Jun 2015	AustLII	2
R v Sumpton	[2014] NSWSC 1432	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	13 Oct 2014	AustLII	13
O'Shane v Harbour Radio Pty Ltd	[2014] NSWSC 93	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	20 Feb 2014	AustLII	6
Sleeman v Tuloch Pty Ltd Tas Palms	[2013] NSWDC 92	District Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	19 Jun 2013	AustLII	1
Cancer Care Institute of Australia Pty Ltd	[2012] NSWSC 1649	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	17 Aug 2012	AustLII
Palavi v Radio 2UE Sydney Pty Ltd	[2011] NSWCA 264	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	8 Sep 2011	AustLII	61
DPP (Cth) v Xu	[2010] NSWSC 842; 202 A Crim R 279	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	30 Jul 2010	AustLII	3
Bechara v Bonacorso (No 4)	[2010] NSWDC 234	District Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	15 Oct 2010	AustLII	2
Calabro v Zappia	[2010] NSWDC 127	District Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	11 Jun 2010	AustLII	8
Channel Seven Sydney Pty Ltd v Mahommed	[2010] NSWCA 335; (2010) 278 ALR 232; [2010] ATR 82-075	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	7 Dec 2010	AustLII	91
Habib v Nationwide News Pty Ltd (No 2)	[2010] NSWCA 291	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	8 Nov 2010	AustLII	20

Legislation Cited

Legislation Name	Provision
Evidence Bill 1991 (Cth)
Crimes Act 1914 (Cth)
Evidence Act 1995 (Cth)	s56, s84, s135, s138, s142, s146, s147, s155, s160, s161, s162
Federal Court of Australia Act (Cth)
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act (Cth)
Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth)	s52
Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW)	s56, s84, s135
Evidence Act 1995 (NSW)
Fair Trading (NSW)
Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW)
Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW)
Defamation Act 1974 (NSW)	s7A
Defamation Act 1889 (Qld)	s42
Defamation Act 1957 (Tas)

Cases and Articles Cited

Case Name	Citation(s) †	Court	Jurisdiction	Date	Full Text	Citation Index
R v JF	[2009] ACTSC 104; (2009) 237 FLR 142	Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory	Australia - Australian Capital Territory	27 Aug 2009	AustLII	18
R v Bertrand	[2008] VSCA 182; (2008) 20 VR 222; (2008) 188 A Crim R 223	Supreme Court of Victoria - Court of Appeal	Australia - Victoria	19 Sep 2008	AustLII	17
Habib v Nationwide News Pty Ltd	[2008] NSWSC 181; [2008] Aust Torts Reports 81-938	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	7 Mar 2008	AustLII	6
Shields v Westpac Banking Corporation	[2008] NSWCA 268	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	17 Oct 2008	AustLII	6
McNeil v R	[2008] HCATrans 383	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	14 Nov 2008	AustLII	1
McNeill v R	[2008] FCAFC 80; (2008) 168 FCR 198; (2008) 248 ALR 710; 184 A Crim R 467	Federal Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	23 May 2008	AustLII	19
Habib v Commonwealth of Australia	[2008] FCA 1494	Federal Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	7 Oct 2008	AustLII	5
R v Ul-Haque	[2007] NSWSC 1251; (2007) 177 A Crim R 348	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	5 Nov 2007	AustLII	19
Westpac Banking Corporation v Ollis	[2007] NSWSC 956	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	31 Aug 2007	AustLII	13
Higgins v R	[2007] NSWCCA 56	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Criminal Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	9 Mar 2007	AustLII	27
Tofilau v R	[2007] HCA 39; (2007) 231 CLR 396; (2007) 238 ALR 650; (2007) 81 ALJR 1688; (2007) 174 A Crim R 183	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	30 Aug 2007	AustLII	171
R v Thomas	[2006] VSCA 165; (2006) 14 VR 475; (2006) 163 A Crim R 567	Supreme Court of Victoria - Court of Appeal	Australia - Victoria	18 Aug 2006	AustLII	35
Colosimo v DPP (NSW)	[2006] NSWCA 293	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	2 Nov 2006	AustLII	23
Smits v Roach	[2006] HCA 36; (2006) 227 CLR 423; (2006) 228 ALR 262; (2006) 80 ALJR 1309; [2006] Aust Torts Reports 81-851	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 2006	AustLII	281
John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v O ’ Shane	[2005] NSWCA 164; [2005] Aust Torts Reports 81-789; [2005] ATR 81-789	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	17 May 2005	AustLII	57
John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Jones	[2004] NSWCA 205	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	22 Jun 2004	AustLII	42
Kelly v R	[2004] HCA 12; (2004) 218 CLR 216; 205 ALR 274; (2004) 78 ALJR 538	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	10 Mar 2004	AustLII	405
Gattellaro v Westpac Banking Corporation	[2004] HCA 6; (2004) 204 ALR 258; (2004) 78 ALJR 394	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 2004	AustLII	51
Fox v Percy	[2003] HCA 22; (2003) 214 CLR 118; (2003) 197 ALR 201; (2003) 77 ALJR 989; (2003) 38 MVR 1; (2003) 24 Leg Rep 2; (2003) 197 AR 201	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 2003	AustLII	5047
Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Warton	[2002] NSWCA 377	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	21 Nov 2002	AustLII	16
Greek Herald Pty Ltd v Nikolopoulos	[2002] NSWCA 41; (2002) 54 NSWLR 165	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	circa 2002	AustLII	117
Malika Holdings Pty Ltd v Stretton	[2001] HCA 14; (2001) 204 CLR 290; (2001) 178 ALR 218; (2001) 75 ALJR 626; (2001) 22 Leg Rep 26	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 2001	AustLII	135
R v Ye Zhang	[2000] NSWSC 1099	Supreme Court of New South Wales	Australia - New South Wales	1 Dec 2000	AustLII	33
R v Douglas	[2000] NSWCCA 275	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Criminal Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	28 Jul 2000	AustLII	12
R v GH	[2000] FCA 1618; (2000) 105 FCR 419	Federal Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	14 Nov 2000	AustLII	23
R v Fernando	[1999] NSWCCA 66	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Criminal Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	14 Apr 1999	AustLII	95
New South Wales v Deren	[1999] NSWCA 22; [1999] Aust Torts Reports 81-502	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	25 Feb 1999	AustLII	17
Papakosmas v R	[1999] HCA 37; (1999) 196 CLR 297; (1999) 164 ALR 548; (1999) 73 ALJR 1274; (1999) 15 Leg Rep C16	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 1999	AustLII	652
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Eshetu	[1999] HCA 21; (1999) 197 CLR 611; (1999) 162 ALR 577; (1999) 73 ALJR 746; (1999) 54 ALD 289; (1999) 9 Leg Rep 17	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	13 May 1999	AustLII	2132
Graham v R	[1998] HCA 61; (1998) 195 CLR 606	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 1998	AustLII	34
R v Swaffield	[1998] HCA 1; (1998) 192 CLR 159; (1998) 151 ALR 98; (1998) 72 ALJR 339; (1998) 96 A Crim R 96; [1998] 1 Leg Rep C5	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 1998	AustLII	697
R v Esposito	(1998) 105 A Crim R 27; (1998) 45 NSWLR 442		Australia	circa 1998	Legal Online / Westlaw	137
R v Horton	(1998) 45 NSWLR 426; 104 A Crim R 306		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1998	LexisNexis AU	60
New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council v Perkins	(1998) 45 NSWLR 340		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1998	LexisNexis AU	38
Raul Amon International Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Ltd	[1998] 4 VR 798; [1997] Aust Torts Reports 81-447		Australia - Victoria	circa 1998	LexisNexis AU	13
CIC Insurance Ltd v Bankstown Football Club Ltd	[1997] HCA 2; (1997) 187 CLR 384; (1997) 141 ALR 618; (1997) 71 ALJR 312; (1997) 9 ANZ Insurance Cases 61-348; [1997] 3 Leg Rep 2	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 1997	AustLII	1948
Eastman v R	(1997) 76 FCR 9; (1997) 158 ALR 107	Federal Court of Australia	Australia	circa 1997	Legal Online / Westlaw	127
Telstra Corporation Ltd v Australis Media Holdings (No 2)	(1997) 41 NSWLR 346		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1997	LexisNexis AU	30
Watson v Foxman	[1995] NSWCA 497; (1995) 49 NSWLR 315	Supreme Court of New South Wales - Court of Appeal	Australia - New South Wales	30 Jan 1995	AustLII	1066
Burut v Public Prosecutor	[1995] 2 AC 579		United Kingdom	circa 1995	LexisNexis / Westlaw	5
Australian Securities Commission v Marlborough Gold Mines Ltd	[1993] HCA 15; (1993) 177 CLR 485; (1993) 112 ALR 627; (1993) 10 ACSR 230; (1993) 67 ALJR 517	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	6 May 1993	AustLII	873
Neat Holdings Pty Ltd v Karajan Holdings Pty Ltd	[1992] HCA 66; (1992) 110 CLR 445; (1992) 110 ALR 449; (1992) 67 ALJR 170	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	16 Dec 1992	AustLII	1776
Attorney-General (NSW) v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd	[1990] A Def R 50-080		Australia	circa 1990		1
Bookbinder v Tebbit	[1989] 1 All ER 1169; [1989] 1 WLR 640		United Kingdom	circa 1989	LexisNexis	27
R v Fulling	[1987] EWCA Crim 4; [1987] QB 426; [1987] 2 All ER 65; (1987) 85 Cr App R 136; [1987] 2 WLR 923	England and Wales Court of Appeal - Criminal Division	United Kingdom - England and Wales	17 Feb 1987	BAILII	25
Anderson v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (No 2)	(1986) 5 NSWLR 735		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1986	LexisNexis AU	26
Singleton v Ffrench	(1986) 5 NSWLR 425		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1986	LexisNexis AU	119
Metwally v University of Wollongong (No 2)	[1985] HCA 28; (1985) 60 ALR 68	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 1985	AustLII	398
Pyneboard Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission	[1983] HCA 9; (1983) 152 CLR 328; 45 ALR 609; (1983) 57 ALJR 236; 5 TPR 75; [1983] ATPR 40-341	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 1983	AustLII	337
O ’ Brien v Komesaroff	[1982] HCA 33; (1982) 150 CLR 310; 41 ALR 255; 56 ALJR 681	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	21 May 1982	AustLII	703
Ajodha v The State; Chandree v The State	[1982] AC 204; [1981] 2 All ER 193; [1981] 3 WLR 1		United Kingdom	circa 1982	LexisNexis / Westlaw	59
MacPherson v R	[1981] HCA 46; (1981) 147 CLR 512; 37 ALR 81; (1981) 55 ALJR 594	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	4 Sep 1981	AustLII	440
Collins v R	[1980] FCA 72; (1980) 31 ALR 257	Federal Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	20 Jun 1980	AustLII	201
Stollznow v Calvert	[1980] 2 NSWLR 749		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1980	LexisNexis AU	437
Jones v Sutherland Shire Council	[1979] 2 NSWLR 206		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1979	LexisNexis AU	196
Petritsis v Hellenic Herald Pty Ltd	[1978] 2 NSWLR 174		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1978	LexisNexis AU	70
Straker v R	(1977) 15 ALR 103; (1977) 51 ALJR 690		Australia	circa 1977	LexisNexis AU	19
DPP v Ping Lin	[1976] AC 574; [1975] 3 All ER 175; [1975] 3 WLR 419		United Kingdom	circa 1976	LexisNexis / Westlaw	1
Barca v R	[1975] HCA 42; (1975) 133 CLR 82; 7 ALR 78; (1975) 50 ALJR 108	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	10 Oct 1975	AustLII	499
Cohen v Daily Telegraph Ltd	[1968] 2 All ER 407; [1968] 1 WLR 916		United Kingdom	circa 1968	LexisNexis	22
Ex parte Hamilton; Re Fagan	[1966] 2 NSWR 732		Australia - New South Wales	circa 1966		6
R v Priestley	(1965) 51 Cr App R 1		United Kingdom	circa 1965	LexisNexis	43
Woon v R	[1964] HCA 23; (1964) 109 CLR 529; [1964] ALR 868; 38 ALJR 32	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	9 Apr 1964	AustLII	106
Suttor v Gundowda Pty Ltd	[1950] HCA 35; (1950) 81 CLR 418; [1950] ALR 820	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	26 Sep 1950	AustLII	1105
McDermott v R	[1948] HCA 23; (1948) 76 CLR 501; [1948] 2 ALR 466	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	circa 1948	AustLII	440
Briginshaw v Briginshaw	[1938] HCA 34; (1938) 60 CLR 336; [1938] ALR 334; 12 ALJR 100	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	14 Oct 1982	AustLII	10253
Metropolitan Gas Co v Federated Gas Employees ’ Industrial Union	[1925] HCA 5; (1924) 35 CLR 449; 31 ALR 117	High Court of Australia	Australia - Commonwealth	10 Apr 1925	AustLII	235
Winterbottom v Vardon & Sons	[1920] SALawRp 23; [1920] SALR 357		Australia - South Australia	28 Oct 1920	AustLII	2
Maisel v Financial Times Ltd	[1915] 3 KB 336; [1914-15] All ER 671; (1915) 84 LJKB 2145; (1915) 31 TLR 192; (1915) 112 LT 953		United Kingdom	circa 1915	LexisNexis / Westlaw	56
R v Christie	[1914] UKLawRpAC 20; [1914] AC 545; [1914-15] All ER 63; (1914) 10 Cr App R 141; 111 LT 220		United Kingdom	7 Apr 1914	CommonLII	328
R v Norton	[1910] UKLawRpKQB 103; (1910) 2 KB 496		United Kingdom	15 Jun 1910	CommonLII	21
Towne v Eisner	254 US 418	United States Supreme Court	United States	circa 1924	Westlaw	4

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