Dr Kerryn Phelps keeps most of her imputations in case against Piers Akerman’s anthrax outpourings ... more
Year: 2003
Coleman v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd
Ordinary reasonable readers would treat a Sun-Herald story on Souths’ football coach as a “joke”. Imputations incapable of arising ... more
Surveillance report
Media up in arms about NSW law reform plan to require judges to determine whether images acquired “covertly” can be published ... more
Griffith v Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Balance requires plaintiffs to have the final word in the ear of the jury ... more
Kelly v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd
Justice Levine rejects Justice Bell’s thinking on imputations of homosexuality. He thinks it’s defamatory, although context is everything ... more
Robertson v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd
Trade unions survive challenge to standing to sue. Yet only one imputation arising from Leonie Lamont’s opinion article survives ... more
Cotter v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd
The Mayor of Marrickville brought proceedings inter alia that there were reasonable grounds to suspect he had engaged in business and property deals which conflicted with his duties as a council member and other imputations. The defendant’s defence of truth and contextual truth failed and the plaintiff was awarded general and aggravated damages. … more
Kilpatrick v Van Staveren
An employee wrongly accused of theft of company property. After evidence by an officer of the company that he never believed the plaintiff was a thief, aggravated and exemplary damages were awarded and the subsequent appeal was dismissed. … more
To Ha Huynh v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd
Jury finds plaintiff defamed by assertion that he attended a party thrown inside Long Bay jail by the political assassin Phuong Ngo. Sydney Morning Herald articles by Miranda Devine and Stephen Gibbs ... more
Loo v Regional Publishers Pty Ltd
Moree pharmacist who owns the only two chemist shops in town succeeds with most of his imputations in case against newspaper attack on price and service ... more
Ronald Michael Loo v Regional Publishers Pty Ltd
A NSW Supreme Court section 7A jury on Wednesday (July 2) took just over an hour to find that Moree chemist Ronald Loo was defamed by three articles and a poster published by Regional Publishers Pty Ltd in August last year. ... more
O’Shane v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd
Final submissions in important comment case. The Sydney Morning Herald also argues that Lange qualified privilege extends to discussion about the conduct of judicial officers ... more