8 Sept 2006
HODGSON AND ANOR V SIEMER AND ORS HC AK CIV 2005-404-1808
- Citation
- openlaw-cc7b059c_23b6_4e2f_bde8_e406e076506e.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The court dismissed the defendants' application to determine termination of the 2001 agreement as inappropriate for r 418 and for separate trial, ordered that the question whether the published words are capable of bearing the pleaded defamatory meanings be determined as a preliminary issue (making the orders sought in paras 2,3,4,5 and 7), refused to vary the interim injunction to allow reinstatement of the billboard because the defendant had breached the injunction and had not purged contempt (outstanding costs), and made timetable directions and a partial costs award to the plaintiffs (50%…