Catchwords:

APPEAL — leave to appeal — leave required as the amount does not exceed $100,000 —failure to establish issue of principle, question of public importance or reasonably clear injustice — by consent leave granted in respect of proposed ground 5 and appeal allowed for failure to award separate amounts for damages and order judgment against each applicant separately — leave to appeal otherwise refused

DEFAMATION — defamatory matter — multiple publications — emails — Facebook comments — alleged misuse of charitable funds for personal financial benefit — applicants held to have published defamatory material — Wild2Free — wildlife care — common law qualified privilege — reply to attack — triviality defence — Defamation Act 2005 (NSW), ss 33, 39