Category: Imputations

Former Australian Information Commissioner maintains most of his pleaded imputations for an article in The Canberra Times ... Allegations of hypocrisy and betrayal do not arise, but those of negligence and incompetence do … Naaman Zhou reports ... more

WA Supreme Court Justice Ken Martin dismisses two defamation actions brought by the operators of Quokka Joe’s cafe on Rottnest Island … The plaintiffs displayed an “abnormal level of hypersensitivity” to 15 words spoken to one person … Carmel Galati reports ... more

NSW Supreme Court Justice Lucy McCallum side-steps “feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis” and strikes out two imputations pleaded by Fairfax columnist Lisa Pryor over a comment piece by Mark Latham in The Australian Financial Review ... more

What constitutes corrupt conduct is the subject of a second round of argument over imputations pleaded by former Australian Water Holdings boss Nick Di Girolamo for a series of Sydney Morning Herald articles covering the ICAC inquiry into Eddie Obeid ... more

Imputations judgment leaves Lionel Murphy’s “little mate” with four out of 16 imputations he originally pleaded … Ten to be re-pleaded as his lawyer asks for an expedited hearing due to his client’s “advanced years” ... more

Imputations alleging the girlfriend of convicted murderer Simon Gittany is “ridiculous” and “stupid” get short shrift in the NSW District Court … Judge Judith Gibson also finds problems with four imputations pleaded by a man once suspected of murder … Nina Ubaldi reports ... more

Clive Palmer suffers a major blow in his defamation action against The Australian and two of its journalists … Nine out of ten imputations pleaded for three articles are struck out … Victoria Keller reports ... more

Holocaust denier’s appeal over imputation that he fabricated history dismissed … Nationwide News fails to have indigenous surfer’s claim struck out, as well as five imputations ... more

Twitter case brought by two Liberal pollsters against a former federal Labor minister to proceed after the plaintiffs fail to have truth, contextual truth and qualified privilege defences struck out … Rebecca Gall reports ... more

No summary dismissal of claim against ABC consumer affairs program “The Checkout” ... Father of Swisse Vitamins chief executive to re-plead after all nine imputations are struck out ... more

A report in The Independent about a failed libel case brought by a writer is not capable of conveying his pleaded meanings – defamatory or not – says UK High Court ... more

After a seven day hearing in the NSW Supreme Court, Justice Carolyn Simpson finds the two imputations pleaded by one vascular surgeon for another vascular surgeon’s email simply don’t arise ... more