Category: Injunctions

Sydney solicitor granted temporary injunction over defamatory website comments posted by a former client … NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Hammill says Barrie Goldsmith “has a lot to lose” ... more

A man who was suspected of the murder of his former girlfriend in 2005, has failed to restrain publication of a book about the case … WA Supreme Court Justice Ken Martin favours the public interest in free speech ... more

Media lawyer and her client Kerry Stokes succeed in stopping a blogger from publishing defamatory material on his website and Twitter page … Freedom of speech trumped by “strong case” ... more

NSW Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison refuses to injunct website defaming media baron Kerry Stokes and media lawyer Justine Munsie, or suppress details about their defamation proceedings … Contempt charges against virulent blogger remain afoot ... more

NSW Supreme Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones injuncts Today Tonight program on potential breach of contract basis … Serious question to be tried as to whether Seven gave the plaintiffs right of veto over an interview ... more

NSW Supreme Court grants interlocutory injunction to Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate over a defamatory and possibly contemptuous website … Defendant ordered to de-register the domain name ... more

Australian actress and singer Holly Valance fails to injunct Woman’s Day magazine containing photos of her five months pregnant … NSW Supreme Court Justice Michael Pembroke finds the order would be futile, and the defendant’s conduct “disdainful” ... more

Canberra Raiders winger Sandor Earl stops The Daily Telegraph from publishing confidential medical information about him (for now) ... Justice Richard White lifts a suppression order on reporting the proceedings ... more

Seven Network wins court battle to restrain X-Factor celebrity judge Mel B. from defecting to rival talent show on Channel Nine … The former Spice Girl’s agent (and husband) is described as an “unsatisfactory witness” ... more

Former Spice Girl Mel B. prevented from appearing on Channel Nine … Injunction stays pending resolution of “pure contract” dispute … Justice David Hammerschlag promises speedy judgment ... more

The Australian stops a police integrity report from being provided to parliament … It also succeeds in preventing the Victorian Office of Police Integrity from disclosing any information about the newspaper’s employees to the DPP ... more

Court closed. Medical entrepreneur Jack Vaisman wins a round in his battle to keep The Sydney Morning Herald from publishing allegations about his erectile dysfunction company AMI ... more