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The Attorney-General and Lindsay Gow v Erin Alice Leigh - SC 11/2011

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Summary

Civil Appeal – Defamation Act 1992 – Absolute Privilege – whether the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the Briefing Paper and oral statements did not form part of the “proceedings in the House of Representatives” and therefore were not protected by absolute privilege[2010] NZCA 624  CA 483/2009 17 December  2010

Result

The application for leave to appeal is granted. The approved ground is whether the communications by Mr Gow to the Minister for the Environment were the subject of absolute privilege.
11 April 2011
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Appeal dismissed.
16 September 2011

Related Documents

Leave judgment - leave granted — ATTORNEY-GENERAL IN RESPECT OF THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND GOW V LEIGH SC 11/2011 11 April 2011

Substantive judgment — THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v LEIGH SC 11/2011 [16 September 2011] (PDF 117 KB)

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Transcript

Hearing date : 16 August 2011

Elias CJ, Blanchard, Tipping, McGrath, Anderson JJ.

 

Substantive judgmen / Media release

Judgment appealed from