12 Sept 2014
SLATER v BLOMFIELD [2014] NZHC 2221
- Citation
- [2014] 3 NZLR 835
- Court
- High Court
A blogger can be a journalist and a blog a news medium where the blog regularly disseminates new or recent information to a significant public; Slater in early 2012 received information in the normal course of his work and had given a promise of confidentiality so s 68(1) applies generally, but not in relation to an already disclosed source (Spring). However, after weighing s 68(2) factors (issues to be tried, low likelihood of adverse effect on informants, limited public interest in protecting sources given private-feud character and apparent unlawful acquisition of materials), the public in…