Muslim community spokesman Keysar Trad loses his defamation action against 2GB in spectacular fashion. NSW Chief Judge at Common Law Peter McClellan upholds the defences of truth, comment and qualified privilege, finding Trad a dangerous individual who incites acts of violence and racist attitudes ... more
Category: Truth
Mamdouh Habib v Nationwide News Pty Ltd
NSW Court of Appeal asked to overturn Nationwide News victory against former terrorist suspect Mamdouh Habib on the basis that Justice Peter McClellan wrongly admitted evidence obtained after he was tortured in Pakistan and Guantanamo Bay ... more
Orsborn v John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd
Truth wins case for Fairfax as Justice John Hislop finds former mortgage broker Geoffrey King (Orsborn) deceived a borrower by failing to disclose that his wife, Paris King Orsborn, was the lender ... more
Ron Cross v Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd
The NSW Court of Appeal finds that Acting Justice Cooper erred comprehensively – in relation to justification and by failing to consider any other defences in Gold Coast marketeer Ron Cross’ action against The Courier-Mail. Justice Margaret Beazley orders another trial ... more
Mamdouh Habib v Nationwide News Pty Ltd
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib (pic) loses his defamation suit against The Daily Telegraph. Justice Peter McClellan finds he wasn’t telling the truth about a number of things, including that he’d never been to Afghanistan ... more
Jamie Fawcett v John Fairfax Publications & Annette Sharp
Rare win for media as celebrity photojournalist Jamie Fawcett suffers a spectacular loss in his defamation action against The Sun Herald. Justice Carolyn Simpson finds Fawcett is a “cowboy” who placed a bug outside Nicole Kidman’s home and caused havoc in her private life. ... more
Roland Bleyer v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd
Gold bullion in the Philippines, platinum reserves in Siberia, crude oil from Saudi Arabia, hospitals in China, low-cost housing in Colombia, worm farms in the US. Justice McClellan presides over an extraordinary week of evidence from alleged conman “Sir” Roland Bleyer ... more
Thuyen Nguyen v Nguyen & Vu Publishers Pty Ltd & ors
Court 12B in the NSW Supreme Court was the scene of another Vietnam war, this time between anti-communist activist Thuyen Nguyen and the Vietnamese publishers who called him a “Cheating Bachelor”. Tears flow in second-leg defamation trial ... more
Burden v Ainsworth
NSW Court of Appeal moans about arcane defamation complications and deplorable delays as defendant’s defences are restored in Ainsworth case ... more