10 May 2012
KARAM V FAIRFAX NEW ZEALAND LIMITED HC AK CIV-2010-404-005021
- Citation
- openlaw-a087ca94_fdcd_4e95_aa6b_9d993d86c055.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The Court held that Fairfax's s 10(2)(b) honest opinion defence as amended was not plainly unsustainable and therefore should not be wholly struck out; however items 56–59 of Schedule A were struck out because they post‑dated the publications and could not support the 'generally known at the time' basis. The Court dismissed both the plaintiff's application for further discovery against Fairfax (no basis to compel additional documents) and Fairfax's application for wide particular discovery of documents relating to Schedule A on grounds of disproportionality and lack of specificity under the (…