Category: Section 7A

Victorian Supreme Court ... Justice John Dixon rejects bid for "section 7A" style trial on separate question of meaning ... Not satisfied minds of jury will be "polluted" by repeated exposure to press conference recording ... Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports ... more

A section 7A jury rejects the bulk of Mamdouh Habib’s defamation action against 2UE and 2GB … Messrs Laws, Price and Hadley did not call the former Guantanamo Bay detainee a terrorist, an idiot or a leech on Australia ... more

Will former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib finally succeed in his defamation actions against 2UE and 2GB? The unusual admission of line-numbered transcript for three broadcasts may go some way in assisting ... more

Greg Symons’ defamation action against the ABC lives to see another day as a NSW Supreme Court jury finds one imputation conveyed ... more

NSW Supreme Court jury throws out defamation action brought by controversial immunologist and kidney transplant researcher Professor Bruce Hall against the ABC and Dr Norman Swan. Hall sued over two Science Show broadcasts that he said accused him of scientific misconduct and fraud ... more

NSW District Court s7A jury finds that the Australian Financial Review defamed Afghan-Australian interpreters Sayar and Malyar Dehsabzi. 10 out of 21 imputations get up – but not an imputation that they “supported terrorism” ... more

Failed nuclear technology company Nu-Tec’s defamation ambitions suffer another setback as a feisty NSW Supreme Court jury throws out the bulk of the case brought against the ABC’s 7.30 Report by Noel Dennis, one of Nu-Tec’s principle shareholders and the company’s former “legal advisor” ... more

A Supreme Court jury delivers a verdict for Roseanne Catt (nee Beckett), but only after it asks a question of some substance. Catt, whose attempted murder conviction was quashed in 2004, is suing over a 60 Minutes program that alleged she sexually abused her stepchildren ... more

Rachel Gardener, the former Homebush High English teacher defamed as a bank robber by The Daily Telegraph in 2006, has done much better in her s.7A re-trial. Once again the jury rejects an imputation sent back by the NSW Court of Appeal ... more

Another of The Australian’s investigations into home-grown terrorism is found to be defamatory. This time the target was Lakemba-based sheik, Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud ... more

Former owners of Coco Roco were given two imputations courtesy of the Court of Appeal and the High Court. Now a new jury has granted them a third over that scathing Sydney Morning Herald restaurant review ... more

Despite forceful directions from Justice Michael Adams, a NSW Supreme Court jury remained deadlocked on 14 out of 19 imputations pleaded against The Australian Financial Review by former high-flying business consultant Zia Qureshi. He gets just one imputation up ... more