Category: Section 7A

Dr Kerryn Phelps gets three imputations up in relation to Piers Akerman’s “bagging” in The Sunday Telegraph. Two quite grave meanings fail to get past the jury ... more

“Frenzy of infecting material” will not prejudice jury in early hearing of Olympic Swimming director’s defamation trial against A Current Affair ... more

NSW jury finds that an imputation of homosexuality is not defamatory, nor is one relating to exhibitionism. Otherwise, a Sun-Herald story about a promotional stunt for the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras defames former partner of Gadens ... more

Jury finds that investment banker and company director Geoff Hill was not defamed by Mark Westfield in The Australian ... more

Big tow truck operator gets his “corrupt, collusive, intimidating” imputations up against Darren Goodsir’s investigation in The Sydney Morning Herald ... more

Abe Saffron fails in “Mr Sin” case against The Sydney Morning Herald. Jury unmoved by Clive Evatt’s analogy to Eugene Onegin ... more

Telco formerly chaired by Jeff Kennett defamed by Financial Review article on accounting standards ... more

Private detective agency succeeds with all four imputations over The Australian’s story on phoney university degrees ... more

Jury finds plaintiff defamed by assertion that he attended a party thrown inside Long Bay jail by the political assassin Phuong Ngo. Sydney Morning Herald articles by Miranda Devine and Stephen Gibbs ... more

Moree pharmacist who owns the only two chemist shops in town succeeds with most of his imputations in case against newspaper attack on price and service ... more

A NSW Supreme Court section 7A jury on Wednesday (July 2) took just over an hour to find that Moree chemist Ronald Loo was defamed by three articles and a poster published by Regional Publishers Pty Ltd in August last year. ... more

Clean sweep against Today Tonight for “callous, parasitic” mother in District Court s.7A trial ... more