Bashford v Information Australia (Newsletters) Pty Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGleeson CJ,Hayne,Heydon JJ,McHugh,Gummow J,Kirby J,Callinan J
Judgment Date11 February 2004
Neutral Citation[2004] HCA 5,2004-0211 HCA A
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberS393/2002
Date11 February 2004
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1 firm's commentaries
  • NSW Court of Appeal clarifies the scope of qualified privilege
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 4 April 2011
    ...by a "pressing need". Justice McHugh and Bashford In a dissenting judgment in Bashford v Information Australia (Newsletters) Pty Ltd [2004] HCA 5 Justice McHugh J said of the defence of qualified "ordinarily the occasion for making a volunteered statement will be privileged only where there......
2 books & journal articles
  • Lange and Reynolds qualified privilege: Australian and English defamation law and practice.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 28 No. 2, August 2004
    • 1 August 2004
    ...Gray J, 21 July 2003). (59) Shillito and Barendt, above n 34, 411. (60) See, eg, Bashford v Information Australia (Newsletters) Pty Ltd (2004) 204 ALR 193, 201 (Gleeson CJ, Hayne and Heydon JJ), 247 (Kirby J), cf 203 (McHugh J). (61) See Loveland, 'Political Libels', above n 36, 357. (62) [......
  • Apples, Oranges and Comparative Administrative Law
    • South Africa
    • Acta Juridica No. , August 2019
    • 30 August 2019
    ...section 36.36In other words, a duty that cannot be ‘enforced by curial remedy’: Bashford v InformationAustralia (Newsletters) Pty Ltd [2004] HCA 5, per Gummow J [137].37PAJA received assent on 3 February 2000, one day before the deadline of 4 February2000: see Hugh Corder ‘Reinventing Admin......

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