datatable use of literal causes $watch error

[Bochenski]

For example, using this in a literal:

blah

causes angular to barf on page initialisation:

TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method '$watch'
at attrInterpolateLinkFn (http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:4996:13)
at nodeLinkFn (http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:4774:13)
at compositeLinkFn (http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:4365:15)
at compositeLinkFn (http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:4368:13)
at compositeLinkFn (http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:4368:13)
at publicLinkFn (http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:4270:30)
at Object.compile (http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/gint-ui.js:64:9)
at applyDirectivesToNode (http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:4588:32)
at http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:4896:37
at http://dev.gb3.co.uk:3005/js/libs/angular.js:9782:11