Category: Damages

The plaintiff actor had lied about her health and pretended to be sick for reasons of personal convenience; avoided her legal obligations so that she could prepare to attend the “Raw Prawn” awards for reasons of personal pleasure; for the purpose of obtaining publicity the plaintiff had disrupted the filming of Night Nurse. … more

The plaintiff misappropriated from a trust fund to assist a quadriplegic footballer. … more

An interview alleged that the plaintiff failed to discharge his duties as a general manager of the Aboriginal Land Council and was responsible for its failure. … more

The plaintiffs had directly engaged in or are suspected of having engaged in unlawful conduct to frustrate and disrupt the publication and distribution of the first edition of Penthouse. … more

The plaintiff was an incompetent and negligent surgeon; and he acted so incompetently and negligently that his patient suffered such serious brain damage that she was reduced to the condition of a vegetable and later died. … more

A letter imputed that a decision made by the commission was made because one party, the union, was using bullying tactics; it was not of any significant consequence whether another party, the council, was right or wrong; the four industrial commissioners made an order which gave into the demands of the union regardless of whether those demands were right or wrong because that was the only order which was acceptable to the union to end its bullying tactics. The commissioners were “succumbing to terrorist demands”. … more

The plaintiff was a person who lacked moral concern for the horrendous possibilities for humanity of nuclear bombs and nuclear power; the plaintiff had chosen to write in a sensational manner a story on scientific research which was misleading. … more

(i) The plaintiff was so fat as to appear ridiculous as he came on to the field to play a first grade rugby league match; the plaintiff had so allowed his physical condition to degenerate that he was a hopeless second row forward.
(ii) The plaintiff had sent an intimidating and provocative letter to an opposing player with the intention of having that player dismissed from the game; the plaintiff had bitten an opposing player’s finger with the intention of provoking a reaction by that player, resulting in that player’s dismissal from the field. … more

The plaintiff was incompetent and unfit to be a rugby league football trainer. … more

The plaintiff was fraudulently involved in land deals. … more

The plaintiff by means of dishonest advertising, had attempted to deceive the public into purchasing tea of unacceptable quality. … more

An interview with the 1st defendant, a solicitor, in Justinian imputed that the plaintiff, a Melbourne barrister, had improperly attempted to force the 1st defendant to retract an honest answer on oath; was guilty of professional misconduct; was negligent; charged excessive fees; and had intimidated the 1st defendant in court proceedings. … more