Category: Costs

Billionaire businessman and federal MP Clive Palmer ordered to pay costs on an indemnity basis after two defamation actions calling for aggravated damages of nearly $10 million each are dismissed ... more

The high price of talkback radio … Caller found liable for 80 per cent of the settlement costs incurred by Newcastle radio station 2HD … NSW Supreme Court Justice David Davies says the station must “share some responsibility” ... more

Is the long and winding relationship between aggrieved author Jeremy Griffith and the ABC finally over? It seems so, after the NSW Court of Appeal rejected the self-proclaimed prophet’s bid for discrete costs against the broadcaster ... more

NSW District Court Judge Len Levy enters a verdict for the defendant in “a case that shouldn’t have been brought” ... Plaintiff failed to “prove” injury to his reputation … His instructing solicitor could be up for costs ... more

NSW Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Fullerton has refused to grant Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates interest on costs, finding that he was not personally “out of pocket” as a result of his defamation action against Alan Jones and 2GB ... more

Is Australian Olympic Committee boss John Coates entitled to interest on costs if the AOC wholly funded his successful defamation action against 2GB and Alan Jones? NSW Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Fullerton considers the evidence ... more

NSW Supreme Court Chief Judge at Common Law Peter McClellan orders Nationwide News to pay actress Judy Davis’ costs on an indemnity basis because the publisher failed to make a reasonable settlement offer before trial ... more

No indemnity costs for Fairfax arising from verdict in its favour in Rivkin case. Apparently this was because Rivkin was unwell, not because he had no prospects of success ... more

NSW Supreme Court removes costs restrictions for plaintiffs in defamation cases following Justice Simpson’s award of modest damages in Mosman Daily case ... more