Category: Injunctions

A rare win for the media as Fairfax succeeds in getting ex parte injunctions set aside in relation to allegations of criminal activity on Sydney’s waterfront. Justice Michael Slattery declines to injunct material he describes as “apprehended defamation” ... more

Variation to injunction gets up as NSW Supreme Court Justice Nigel Rein allows The Sydney Morning Herald to publish details of the practices of controversial erectile dysfunction company Advanced Medical Institute ... more

The NSW Court of Appeal has refused to permanently injunct a website containing allegedly defamatory material about the Consul General of Lebanon. Justice Ruth McColl describes the whole application as “fundamentally misconceived” ... more

The Consul General of Lebanon fails to prevent an Arabic language website from publishing “vaguely incoherent ramblings and collected invective” about him. NSW Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison overturns an interim injunction granted by Acting Justice David Patten ... more

The Victorian Court of Appeal dismisses Channel Nine’s appeal over the injunction of real-life gangland TV series Underbelly, just as the murder trial of “A”, a leading figure in the series, is about to start ... more

Queensland’s Chief Justice Paul de Jersey (pic) refuses to injunct Channel Seven broadcasting “an account” of de facto property proceedings. He finds allegations reiterated outside court do not amount to the narration, description, retelling or recitation of proceedings ... more

Justice Crawford of the Supreme Court of Tasmania grants an injunction to James O’Neill, a convicted child killer, preventing the broadcast of an ABC documentary linking the plaintiff to other suspected murders. Still serving a life sentence Crawford J said the prisoner had a repution to protect and anyway it wasn’t the media’s job to convict him ... more

Barrister tries to stop book by Dr Ingrid Van Beek about the medically supervised injecting room at Kings Cross. Injunction inappropriate to restrain a matter of public interest ... more

The balance of convenience overwhelmingly favoured publication of the Trish Draper story. Acting Chief Judge of the SA District Court got the injunction and the suppression wrong ... more

Dispute over use of BBC Iraq coverage by SBS. Foxtel claims its subscriber service “devalued”. The multicultural broadcaster staves of interim injunction sought by BBC ... more

The House of Lords reviews breach of court injunction by third parties and upholds government appeal against the expired Punch magazine ... more