Palace Films’ action against the Australian Financial Review and others dismissed … It wasn’t capable of being identified … A shelf company can’t sue in defamation ... more
Police states. One-time murder suspect can proceed with his raft of actions against the SA Police, despite being a bankrupt … Sydney criminal lawyer gets time extension to sue the NSW Police in defamation ... more
NSW Supreme Court Justice Lucy McCallum errs on the side of free speech and refuses to injunct a migration agent training company’s competitor … Her Honour also refuses a Tweed Shire councillor leave to replead a contextual imputation for lack of particulars ... more
More unpalatable news for Fairfax as NSW Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison takes the safe route and recuses himself from determining the Gacics’ damages ... more
Former 2010 Federal political candidate Jake Cassar loses bid to sue Channel Ten because he is out of time and should have known better… Former CEO of collapsed Pacific First Mortgage Fund Phil Sullivan gets to sue in two jurisdictions over statements made to fund investors ... more
A convicted killer who sued Channel Seven and upped his damages claim from $30 million to $95 million has had his “ridiculous” action struck out by QLD Supreme Court Justice Martin Daubney ... more
NSW Supreme Court Justice Henric Nicholas refuses to strike out Lange defence pleaded by The Courier Mail ... Alan Jones ordered to answer questions forthwith … The Australian wins truth case, loses indemnity costs argument ... more
Bitter ex-de facto spat leaves outspoken WA lawyer and parliamentarian John Quigley without a defence of qualified privilege. Sending a defamatory fax to a newspaper editor isn’t protected, nor is a radio interview ... more
South Australian Supreme Court Justice David Peek rejects applications from both sides of long-running litigation – aggrieved photographer Derick Sands and the SA police force – and sends them straight to the trial judge ... more
Lawyers for 2UE apply for a stay of Mamdouh Habib’s last defamation trial on the basis of prejudice … NSW District Court Judge Len Levy makes it clear he wants to “keep this case on the rails” ... more
The former Kings Cross policewoman who alleges she was defamed by Channel Nine’s Underbelly series wins an unusual interlocutory round ... more
The NSW Court of Appeal ponders a District Court judge’s power to dispense with the jury of his own volition … Counsel for Channel Seven argues that Judge Len Levy got it wrong on all grounds in a case brought by Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells ... more
