Independent MP Alex Greenwich sued Upper House Independent Mark Latham over homophobic tweet and interview with Daily Telegraph … Tweet found to be defamatory … Daily Telegraph statements not found to convey pleaded imputations … more
Year: 2024
Greenwich v Latham
Federal Court of Australia ... Independent NSW Member of Parliament Alex Greenwich awarded $140,000 in aggravated damages ... Sued over tweet by outspoken Upper House Member Mark Latham ... Grooming imputations in comments to Daily Telegraph not found conveyed ... Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports ... more
Linda Reynolds v Brittany Higgins
Supreme Court of Western Australia ... Trial in proceeding brought by Senator Linda Reynolds against her former staffer Brittany Higgins comes to an end ... More than twenty witnesses give evidence ... Fellow politicians tell of personal and political toll on Reynolds ... Aaron Bunch of AAP and Courts Editor Stephen Murray report ... more
Around the courts
Costs ... Federal Court of Australia ... Parties to bear own costs on application for leave to commence proceedings in Melbourne AFL club dispute ... District Court of NSW ... Police Commissioner ordered to pay indemnity costs in failed bid to set aside subpoena ... Victorian County Court ... Parties to bear own costs in application for serious harm element separate determination later abandoned ... Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports ... more
Bruce Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Limited & Anor
Federal Court of Australia ... Case management in appeal by Bruce Lehrmann against decision dismissing his defamation action against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson ... Court told Lehrmann in breach of orders concerning security for costs application and stay application ... Lehrmann seeking to recover more than $100,000 held on trust by former lawyers ... Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports ... more
Linda Reynolds v Brittany Higgins
Supreme Court of Western Australia ... Nineteenth and final day of hearings in proceeding brought by Senator Linda Reynolds against her former staffer, Brittany Higgins ... Closing submissions from Reynolds' lawyer, Martin Bennett ... Justice Paul Tottle reserves his decision ... Reynolds addresses media outside Court ... Aaron Bunch of AAP and Courts Editor Stephen Murray report ... more
Linda Reynolds v Brittany Higgins
Supreme Court of Western Australia ... Eighteenth day of hearings in proceeding brought by Senator Linda Reynolds against her former staffer, Brittany Higgins ... Closing submissions from Higgins' lawyer, Rachael Young SC ... Closing submissions from Reynolds' lawyer, Martin Bennett ... Aaron Bunch of AAP and Courts Editor Stephen Murray report ... more
Linda Reynolds v Brittany Higgins
Supreme Court of Western Australia ... Seventeenth day of hearing in proceeding brought by Senator Linda Reynolds against her former staffer, Brittany Higgins ... Closing submissions by Rachael Young SC, senior counsel for Higgins ... Tells Court Reynolds besmirched Higgins and her husband out of frustration at political fate ... Aaron Bunch of AAP and Courts Editor Stephen Murray report ... more
Case round-up from London
Claim for damages under data protection law - ripe for appellate consideration ... Newspaper headlines, extrinsic facts, and innuendo ... Claim for damages in malicious falsehood without financial loss ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from London ... more
Russell v S3@Raw Pty Ltd
Federal Court of Australia … Court rules s.10A(5) of Defamation Act concerning separate determination of serious harm not picked up by s.79 of the Judiciary Act … Constraint on Federal Court Act and Rules own provisions for case management … Sufficient particulars of serious harm in concerns notices … Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports … more
Linda Reynolds v Brittany Higgins
Supreme Court of Western Australia ... Sixteenth day of trial in proceedings brought by Senator Linda Reynolds against her former staffer Brittany Higgins ... Documentary tenders ... Counsel for Reynolds claims inconsistencies in Higgins' account of access to counselling ... Aaron Bunch of AAP and Courts Editor Stephen Murray report ... more
Peros v Nationwide News Pty Ltd & Ors (No 3)
Supreme Court of Queensland … Man acquitted of murder has defamation action over Hedley Thomas podcast episode dismissed … Failure to establish episode caused serious harm … Exegesis on serious harm element, causation and admissibility of evidence … Consideration of the rule in Dingle … Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports … more