15 Jun 2022
ADAMSON v HUTT VALLEY DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD [2022] NZHC 1403
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 1403
- Court
- High Court
The claim was struck out under r 15.1 because the statement of claim failed to comply with s 37, publication by the defendants was limited to the daughter (so any wider publication was not reasonably foreseeable), the email was protected by qualified privilege absent evidence of malice, and any reputational harm to the plaintiff was vanishingly small such that permitting the claim to proceed would be a disproportionate use of court resources (Jameel/Thornton).