Category: Publication

All in the family … An Ipswich solicitor who was likened to the hapless lawyer featured in the Australian film The Castle has his defamation action dismissed … The plaintiff was unlikely to suffer harm by being called “Dennis Denuto” to two members of his family ... more

A Melbourne man who reaped substantial damages from Google and Yahoo over defamatory search engine results enjoys another victory … Victorian Supreme Court finds Google is a publisher, even prior to receiving notice ... more

South Australian researcher succeeds in defamation case against Google over search results and hyperlinks which implied she was a “psychic stalker” ... Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Blue finds Google took an active role in publishing the material … Rico Jedrzejczyk reports ... more

Deputy (UK) High Court judge dismisses libel claim brought over tweets and re-tweets ... They were “too ephemeral to be a substantial tort” ... This report from the (UK) Press Association’s Media Lawyer ... more

Defamation action brought by one-time Bankstown City Council candidate fails at the threshold …. There is no reliable evidence his rival’s wife, Labor MP Tania Mihailuk, said the defamatory words … Case re-opened after a witness for the plaintiff confesses to perjury ... more

Newspaper front-page displayed in glass box is a distinct publication with arguable “smoke” and the ordinary reasonable reader is not a lawyer, says WA Supreme Court Justice Ken Martin … Carmel Galati reports ... more

Self-represented plaintiff fails to adduce evidence of publication in relation to a stock market discussion website … WA Supreme Court Justice Ken Martin dismisses case at the threshold, but finds the truth defence established … Carmel Galati reports ... more

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal comes to an interesting conclusion about whether an internet forum provider is a publisher … This Inforrm article canvasses the judgment ... more

A Sydney journalist who sued over a statement made by a nightclub security guard that he was “way too drunk”, loses his defamation case … NSW District Court Judge Judith Gibson finds the matter was not even published ... more

Google Australia successfully argues that it’s not a publisher … Liability for internet defamation by Google Inc still “not settled” ... more

Perversity abounds as the NSW Court of Appeal is asked to apply the publication test in Gutnick to petitions circulated at the Assyrian Sports Club. Karl “Froggy” Suleman’s legacy lives on ... more

US mercenary Jonathan Keith “Jack” Idema fails in misguided attempt to sue the ABC and journalist Liz Jackson. New York District Court dismisses his action for copyright infringement and defamation over Media Watch broadcast ... more