Injunction granted to stop defamatory posts on Facebook ... Tutoring businesses for Victorian school students at loggerheads over copyrighted practice exams ... Facebook page taken down ... Commercial harassment ... Defamation defences unlikely to succeed ... Nick Bonyhady reports ... more
Category: Injunctions
Munsie v Dowling (No 10)
Permanent injunction against publication of blogger's attacks on Kerry & Ryan Stokes and lawyer Justine Munsie ... Previous takedown orders ignored ... Tendency to publish without consideration of the truth or appropriateness of the imputations ... Persistent defamation of plaintiffs ... Louise Hall reports ... more
Injunctions, suppression and defamation
UPDATE ... Circumspection in reporting required for defamation cases ... Earlier injunction involving sexual abuse allegations lifted as "events changed dramatically" ... Names of anonymous litigants now revealed ... Confidential information in statement of claim suppressed in Ryde Ex-Services Club case ... Nick Bonyhady reports ... more
When the government’s secret documents fall into the hands of the media
Filing cabinets filled with newsworthy fodder ... Memories of Corrections Victoria v Nine Network ... Injunctions ... Privacy ... National security ... Recalling Mason J in Commonwealth v Fairfax ... Nick Bonyhady reports ... more
Gary Miller v An Overseas Newspaper & Ors
NSW Supreme Court Justice Lucy McCallum grants urgent injunction over “highly defamatory” overseas newspaper story and makes pseudonym orders in respect of the parties … Google Inc advises it will not remove its search engine results, but is ordered to do so ... more
Seven Network (Operations) Limited & Anor v Amber Harrison
Amber Harrison’s bid for a “clean break” in her battle with the Seven Network delayed again … Seven’s counsel successfully objects to “90 per cent” of what she wants to say in her statement to the court ... more
Seven Network (Operations) Limited & Anor v Amber Harrison
Amber Harrison saga continues in the NSW Supreme Court as Channel Seven presses her for its costs in seeking and being granted a comprehensive gag order … Harrison makes no appearance, but is given leave to make a submission tomorrow … Sara Tomevska reports ... more
Privacy injunction claim against Channel 4 dismissed
Issues of consent, privacy and the public interest feature in a UK decision not to injunct a Channel 4 program about bailiffs evicting people from their homes … This report from Media Lawyer’s Mike Dodd ... more
Justine Munsie & Ors v Shane Dowling
Lawyers for Kerrie Stokes apply for permanent injunction against a notorious blogger who continues to publish defamatory material in breach of a plethora of court orders … NSW Supreme Court Justice Stephen Rothman seems unimpressed by the defendant’s “submissions” ... more
Sean Carolan v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (No 7)
NSW Supreme Court Justice Lucy McCallum refuses to grant a “wholly successful” defamation plaintiff permanent injunctions … The defamatory material was removed after judgment and any risk of “inadvertent repetition” is small ... more
Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 v Shane Dowling (No 2)
Late 2016 saw a mixed result for those seeking to suppress publication … Two women a notorious blogger accused of having sex with Seven West Media boss Tim Worner succeeded … Not so former NSW deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas, who lost his bid to injunct an ombudsman’s report into police bugging operations ... more
Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation
Federal Court of Australia orders internet providers to block access to torrenting and movie streaming sites … They are in breach of a new provision in the Copyright Act 1968 ... Naaman Zhou reports a decision which also let VPNs off the hook ... more