17 Sept 2015
BLOMFIELD v SLATER [2015] NZHC 2239
- Citation
- [2015] NZHC 2239
- Court
- High Court
The undertaking recorded 1 October 2012 was legally binding; certain publications and comments after that date (including inoperative hyperlinks and continuing online comments) breached the undertaking and amounted to contempt (minor in six instances because mostly residual or rectified), and a publication revealing confidential settlement conference content (posted by the defendant's agent) breached confidentiality and amounted to a more serious contempt. Liability attached where the defendant controlled the publishing site and failed to take reasonable steps to prevent prohibited publicatio…