Category: Publication

NSW Court of Appeal overturns District Court decision to strike out a defamation action brought by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib against 2UE and 2GB ... more

A NSW Supreme Court jury finds the State of NSW did not publish, i.e. “consent to, approve, adopt, promote or ratify” a website which alleged a Hurlstone Agricultural High teacher was a child molester ... more

NSW Court of Appeal finds that District Court judge Judith Gibson correctly refused to strike in “exculpatory” material from a Sally Loane radio program broadcast in 2002. It was reasonably open to Obeid to plead what he did ... more

ABC appeals Judge Gibson’s decision not to “strike in” Eddie Obeid’s “exculpatory” press conference. The national broadcaster wants the matter complained of and Obeid’s subsequent press conference regarded as one publication ... more

Poker machine entrepreneur Len Ainsworth loses his appeal against a jury verdict that found a letter by the former head of the NSW police licensing unit was “published in circumstances unlikely to cause harm”. Is this bitter 12-year saga finally over? ... more

Two trials and two appeals later, poker machine entrepreneur Len Ainsworth still doesn’t have the result he wants in his ancient battle with former NSW police officer Leslie Burden ... more

Schoolteacher wins right to sue the State of NSW over defamatory material published on the internet, which the school principal failed to remove ... more

Spigelman CJ puts off for another day the vexed issue of admissibility of post-publication evidence of a plaintiff’s bad reputation. The trial cannot be further delayed. The desire for perfect justice needs to be modified to ensure any measure of justice ... more

All things considered the High Court thinks it is fair to hear Harrods’ defamation case against The Wall Street Journal in England. Small readership of print and on-line story in response to Al Fayed April Fool stunt ... more

New life is breathed into Arthur Harris’ second round in The Gambling Man litigation. Court of Appeal allows action to proceed against Robbie and Bill Waterhouse ... more

Justice Levine decides that the issue of republication is for the judge, not the jury ... more

US appeal court spurns the Dow Jones v Gutnick approach in squabble over jurisdiction for internet defamation ... more