Lloyd v David Syme & Co Ltd

Subject Matter

DEFAMATION — Australia — New South Wales — Defamation — Comment — Article written by defendant's servant or agent published by defendant — Plaintiff alleging defamatory imputations — Defendant in answer to interrogatory admitting no intention to convey such imputations — Whether article defamatory — Whether defence of comment by servant or agent available to defendant — Defamation Act 1974, ss 9(1)(2), 33(1)(2)

[1986] AC 350; [1986] 2 WLR 69