Category: Interlocutory/Case-Management

The State of WA and publisher Pan Macmillan fail to have defamation actions brought by a Perth barrister who was acquitted of murdering his wife, struck out ... more

Self-represented plaintiff’s defamation action dismissed by judge whose brother (also a judge) the plaintiff (may have) threatened to kill … Palace Films principals, Fairfax Media and movie website Screen Hub directed to mediation after two contextual truth imputations are struck out ... more

Three interlocutory decisions involving the defence of contextual truth – one in Victoria and two in NSW – deliver interesting results … Rico Jedrzejczyk reports ... more

NSW Judicial Commission ordered to provide information about complaints it received in relation to former magistrate Pat O’Shane … Original subpoena narrowed in another interlocutory wrangle with Harbour Radio and Alan Jones ... more

The antiquated law of spousal privilege rears its head in an interlocutory defamation judgment as former Anglican community school employees do defamation battle in the WA Supreme Court … Carmel Galati reports ... more

One-time murder suspect fails in his bid to compel SA police to produce evidence of alleged revisions to a key witness statement tendered during his (unsuccessful) defamation trial ... more

Unionist John Setka fails to convince the Victorian Court of Appeal that it should hear an appeal over a decision which dismissed his application to have defences pleaded by Tony Abbott and Sky News struck out ... more

Missing hedge fund manager has his action against Fairfax struck out for failing to comply with a $300,000 security for costs order ... more

Two interesting interlocutory judgments involving electronic publications … NSW District Court Judge Judith Gibson considers the complexities of applying existing principles to online media ... more

A self-represented litigant with a history of “ill-conceived applications”, has his defamation proceedings dismissed by the NSW Supreme Court after eight long years ... more

Greens Tweed Shire councillor Katie Milne fails to have property developer Bob Ell’s defamation action dismissed as an abuse of process … Gold Coast “party house from hell” owner has most of her “patently hopeless” defamation and breach of privacy actions struck out ... more

Bleak City shenanigans … A man who complained to the Australian Press Council about Andrew Bolt sues him for alleging he is a vexatious litigant … Meanwhile the Bolt-complainant is sued by the man who successfully sued Yahoo and Google for linking him to the underworld ... more