The year in review ... 2024 saw actions arising from the political sphere ... Impact from Brittany Higgins' account of her rape continues to reverberate ... Victorian Opposition Leader loses case and his leadership ... Privacy reforms at the legislative and judicial fronts ... Workplace actions in spotlight ... Miscellany ... Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports ... more
Category: Seminars, interviews & commentary
Vale Tom Hughes AO KC: 1923 – 2024
Tom Hughes AO KC dies, aged 101 ... Distinguished career in law and politics ... A "lion" of the Sydney Bar ... Renowned for work in defamation ... Law texts still cover a range of his cases up to the Privy Council ... Renowned as an advocate ... Courts Editor Stephen Murray reflects ... more
Justice Lee on “reasonableness”
Federal Court of Australia ... Justice Michael Lee addresses the Communication and Media Law Association (CAMLA) ... Survey of the requirement of reasonableness in statutory qualified privilege and public interest defences ... Call for single code of conduct for media to better reflect the law ... Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports ... more
The Law of Privacy – Perspectives from Australia and England and Wales
Seminar on the law of privacy in Australia and England and Wales ... High powered panel contemplate developments in the law ... Twentieth anniversary of Naomi Campbell v Mirror Group ... Barriers to judicial development of law in Australia ... Issues raised by privacy legislation before Parliament ... Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports ... more
The latest edition
Defamation guru Professor David Rolph takes 12 questions from the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Serious harm ... Challenges presented by AI ... Public interest defence ... Rethinking the Federal Court's jurisdiction ... Non-litigious remedies ... Juries ... The influence of Ettingshausen and Bill Collins ... more
Defamation Reform Update
Tasmania introduces legislation for defamation reforms affecting digital intermediaries ... Round-up of progress, or lack of progress ... States and Territories ... Voice for federal government takeover of the jurisdiction grows stronger ... Hamish Lennon reporting ... more
Ten questions for Eric Beecher
A different media ... Niche news replaces mass circulation ... Advertising in the ditch ... Implications for accountability and democracy ... Murdoch and his fear machine ... A funding function for government ... more
Network Ten wants $200,000 security for Lehrmann’s appeal
Graham Hryce argues that the Federal Court should reject Ten's costs application for Lehmann's appeal ... Important principles of law to be determined ... Impecuniosity should not be a bar ... The meaning of "rape" ... more
Is the game worth the candle?
Greenwich v Latham ... Another case in the manner of Palmer v McGowan or Berkoff v Burchill ... Political protagonists using the courts to resolve differences ... Disproportionate use of time and expense ... More akin to sex discrimination than defamation ... Graham Hryce comments ... more
The omnishambles continues
Lehrmann appeals ... Flawed interpretation of the word "rape" ... Abstract and ambiguous imputation ... It would never happen in Justice David Hunt's day ... Miscarriage ... Difficulties ahead for an unrepresented appellant ... Graham Hryce comments ... more
Mis-and-Dis-Information
Online regulation ... Parliamentary investigation into impact of social media on society ... A "regulatory turn" ... Review of Online Safety Act ... eSafety Commissioner v X Corp ... Voluntary code not working ... Online age verification ... International principles and practice ... Dr Robert Nicholls reports ... more
Did Justice Lee get it wrong?
More on the omnishambles ... Holes in Justice Lee's Lehrmann findings on truth ... Natural and ordinary meaning of the word "rape" ... Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer ... Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points ... more