When is the deadline for limitation - court-extended defamation period (outer limit)?
The catalogue records a 3 years period from The date of the alleged publication of the matter. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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Calculation basis and source
- Period
- 3 years
- Trigger
- The date of the alleged publication of the matter
- Counting
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- Rollovers and holidays
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- The extension is discretionary and capped: the court must be satisfied it is just and reasonable to allow the action to proceed, having regard to all the circumstances and in particular the length of and reasons for the plaintiff's delay (s 44A(2A)). Never compute this as an entitlement.
- Encoded as the OUTER LIMIT beyond which no defamation action can be permitted to proceed, not as a period a plaintiff may rely on. The 3 years runs from publication, not from the date of the extension order. Under the single publication rule, s 44AAB(2)(b) fixes when this 3-year period begins for subsequent substantially similar publications.