19 Mar 2009
MOODIE V ELLIS & ORS HC WN CIV 2007-485-002212
- Citation
- openlaw-775c897b_32ba_45b3_a08d_845f5ec0c19e.pdf
- Court
- High Court
Plaintiff must plead precise defamatory words or facts establishing individual defendants as publishers and must link each alleged meaning to specific words or identified combinations of words; particulars of special damages must be pleaded with sufficient particularity; material subject to absolute privilege (statements made in court proceedings) is irrelevant and struck out. Plaintiff granted leave to amend within specified timeframe but security for costs ordered on balance of justice where there was reason to believe plaintiff could not pay.