Category: Trial reports

The tide of evidence begins to turn against expelled St Aiden’s parishioner Bruce Haddon as a bevy of female “Christians in the Media” testify how he “made a bee-line” for young women in the congregation ... more

“Christians in the Media” come under fire from expelled St Aiden’s parishioner over defamatory email. Bruce Haddon accuses the Anglican Church of fabricating evidence that he is a serial harasser of women ... more

What’s in a name? Ray Chesterton’s case against 2UE reaches an all-time low as the evidence focuses on whether or not the former sports journalist has ever been known as “Ankles” (lower than a c***) ... more

Ray Chesterton’s case against 2UE has it all – tears, vulgarity, a journo punch-up, gifts from Tiffany’s and the Vatican – and a suggestion that John Laws was “sensitive” ... more

A NSW Supreme Court jury delivers a mixed verdict for Fairfax Media and Granville businessman Abdullah Ahmadi. It’s true he’s an extortionist, but not true he’s a people smuggler ... more

A case of the facts obscuring the truth? Confusion reigns as a NSW Supreme Court jury is asked to decide between two equally curly versions of events – one given by an alleged people smuggler and the other given by the man he allegedly saved ... more

Identity and identification at issue as Afghani-born businessman Abdullah Ahmadi tells a NSW Supreme Court jury he is the “Mr X” in a 2007 Sydney Morning Herald article, but he’s definitely not a people smuggler or an extortionist ... more

Sydney plastic and cosmetic surgeon Dr Peter Haertsch wins his hard-fought defamation action against Channel Nine’s A Current Affair. The jury finds all of the imputations he pleaded conveyed – and none of them true ... more

Channel Nine closes its truth case with expert testimony describing Dr Peter Haertsch’s treatment of breast implant patient Andrea Chia as “entirely inappropriate”... Justice Henric Nicholas admonishes counsel on both sides for “sledging” ... more

When is an expert witness not an expert? Stuart Littlemore QC tests the boundaries … Nine’s key witness in a Current Affair story about breast implant surgery gone horribly wrong, gives some tearful evidence ... more

Not what the doctor ordered … Channel Nine’s barrister Bruce McClintock SC takes the scalpel to plastic surgeon Dr Peter Haertsch in a day of devastating cross-examination. A Four Corners interview he gave three years ago proves critical ... more

The Sydney Morning Herald’s case draws to a close with some unusual evidence – a statement from its star witness, former Coco Roco general manager Drew McLennan who died suddenly in Bali three weeks ago. He says the food was sometimes “appalling” ... more