Category: Interlocutory/Case-Management

The fact that proceedings were likely to be lengthy, complex and acrimonious did not mean that a jury should not sit as the tribunal of fact in a section 7A trial ... more

Trade union action against The Sydney Morning Herald struck out after failure to plead special damage ... more

Journalist Paul Barry escapes charge of criminal libel after ruling by Chief Justice of the ACT ... more

Justice Levine finds that defamation proceedings amounted to menacing of a newspaper’s advertisers. Plaintiff’s case dismissed as an abuse of process ... more