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proportionality principle in this jurisdiction. It is true that locally there
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has been some previous judicial reluctance to follow Jameel (Yousef), but
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there is no judicial guidance at all on how the proportionality principle
features in the post-CJR landscape. Indeed, according to Bleyer, there
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has been debate even in the Australian jurisdiction as to whether Jameel
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abuse of process is applicable, and McCallum J’s approach premised on
the non-Jameel proportionality principle has not been adopted in
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Australian courts before. In such context, I see the force of Mr McCoy
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SC’s submissions that oversight (and more significantly, guidance) by the
Court of Appeal on the balancing of the factors, especially in the
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post-CJR regime, that may encourage courts to put the brakes on costly
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and time-consuming defamation actions will be relevant and useful.
I am persuaded this comes within the “some other reason in the interests
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of justice” limb for granting leave to appeal.
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Mr McCoy SC has laid emphasis on what I have described in
the Decision as the passivity rule on the basis of the functionalities of
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Google Search which, according to Google Inc, demonstrate that it is a
neutral tool. McCallum J in Bleyer accepted that Google Inc was not a
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publisher of the alleged injurious materials for the purpose of defamation
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law. Her Honour declined to follow Trkulja v Google Inc LLC and
chose to follow the English authorities on the basis there was no human
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input in Google Search apart from setting it up in the first place, and “at
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least prior to notification of a complaint …… Google Inc cannot be liable
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