Justice Barr in the NSW Supreme Court awards taxi industry identity damages of $107,000 over “little Hitler” defamation in cab-drivers magazine. Qualified privilege defeated by malice … more
Year: 2007
Daniel Snedden v Nationwide News Pty Ltd
NSW Supreme Court jury wrestles with “grisly” imputations pleaded by a former paramilitary officer who The Australian said committed a massacre during the Bosnian conflict ... more
Jerry Lee Bennette v Ian Cohen
NSW Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison finds for the defendant, NSW Greens MP Ian Cohen, in his first defamation judgment since being elevated to the bench. Qualified privilege and comment succeed where truth fails ... more
Griffith & Macartney-Snape v ABC & Millikan
Self-proclaimed prophet Jeremy Griffith’s exhaustive and exhausting defamation trial against the ABC and Dr David Millikan comes to a close without the benefit of testimony from its main protagonists. Justice David Kirby foreshadows a long wait until judgment day ... more
Mohammad Abdul Awal v Mohammad Abdur Rouf
Fall out among Bangladeshis over death of relative resulted in two defamatory letters to the Medical Practitioners Board. Loss of face, gossip, the grapevine effect and the lurking place all helped to push damages in the County Court to $105,000 … more
Jeremy Griffith & Tim Macartney-Snape v ABC & Dr David Millikan
Justice David Kirby finds that self-proclaimed prophet Jeremy Griffith has no case in injurious falsehood. Meanwhile, Griffith and Tim Macartney-Snape’s long-running defamation trial against the ABC and Dr David Millikan crawls to a close ... more
Adrian Munn v TCN Nine Pty Ltd
John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Gacic
Fairfax’s restuarant review appeal fails as the High Court affirms the NSW Court of Appeal’s power to substitute its own verdict for that of the jury’s ... more
Channel Seven Perth Pty Ltd v “S” (A Company)
Western Australia Court of Appeal upholds decision that prevented Channel Seven from broadcasting a “hidden camera” recording of a private conversation between an employer and an employee ... more
Bernard Mandic v Special Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast by Johnny Warren on SBS’s he World Game does not give rise to any of the imputations contended by the manager of international soccer star Harry Kewell. Section 7A. ... more
Alan Conwell v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd
Alan Conwell, a former Qantas security manager who was admitted to the bar this year, was defamed in two articles by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Kate McClymont ... more
Saffron v Gold Coast Publications
Abe Saffron defamed by clues and solution in a newspaper crossword puzzle. “Sydney underworld figure” found to be defamatory, but “Mr Sin” is not ... more