Headlines

• Judge finds Stuff knowingly reported what they knew to be false re the defamatory aspect of the 15 Sep article.
• Judge in addition: the defamatory aspect of the 15 Sep article was not published responsibly.
• Judge is not persuaded that reporter’s wording was inadvertent.
• Judge: Reporter, Gary Farrow’s conversation with Daniel Wood (opposing neighbour) and the evidence before me demonstrate that he held particular enthusiasm for a story highlighting the organisers’ failure to obtain resource consent.
• Judge: Stuff did not comply with their own code of ethics.
• Judge grants Cao and Oulton a declaration.