Fourth Estate Holdings (2012) Ltd v Joyce - [2021] 2 NZLR 758

Defamation — Defamatory meanings — Meanings to be interpreted in political context — Passages commenting negatively on Minister of Parliament and former Minister — Article published online and in print — Tweets by publisher regarding article — Meaning attributed to passages — Whether passages conveyed the defamatory meaning pleaded — Whether open to a judge to depart from specific meaning pleaded — Whether passages actually defamatory — Discretion in relation to grant of a declaration — Costs — Defamation Act 1992 ss 8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 35 and 37.