Category: Trial reports

Gruesome details of breast implant surgery gone awry emerge in plastic surgeon Dr Peter Haertsch’s case against Channel Nine. The man awarded an Order of Australia for his work with Bali burns victims, reveals a curious attitude to cosmetic surgery ... more

Food (glorious, and not) takes centre stage as former Sydney Morning Herald restaurant reviewer Matthew Evans gives evidence of two meals he had at Coco Roco six years ago. Justice Ian Harrison’s mother’s culinary skills become a leitmotif ... more

Was Matthew Evans restaurant review entitled “Crash and burn” about one restaurant or two? ... Coco Roco was marketed as “two restaurants in one” ... Identity issue at heart of comment defence ... more

Things get turbulent in Court 9C as Ljiljana Gacic accuses former Sydney Morning Herald restaurant reviewer Matthew Evans of conspiring with two sacked employees to destroy her King Street Wharf restaurant Coco Roco ... more

The long-awaited defences trial in Gacic v Fairfax almost goes off the rails as the Gacics sack their solicitors without warning, their barrister excuses himself and NSW Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison refuses to adjourn for more than a day ... more

Nationwide News settles with Michael Blomfield four days into a devastating cross-examination of its key truth witness, Vivienne Dye. Some might ask how the case got that far ... more

Fissures turn into chasms as The Daily Telegraph’s key truth witness Vivienne Dye gives some extraordinary evidence under cross-examination by Peter Gray SC. Prior inconsistent evidence becomes a prominent feature ... more

The Daily Telegraph’s star truth witness, Vivienne Dye, admits to telling a number of untruths. This, however, doesn’t make her an unreliable witness, says the former Commonwealth Bank business analyst ... more

Former Commonwealth Bank senior executive Michael Blomfield’s defamation action against The Daily Telegraph gets off to an uncomfortably explicit start as the paper’s key truth witness accuses him of sexual harassment all over again ... more

NSW Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Simpson presides over a defamation dogfight in court 11E as Cessnock solicitor Robin Mallik sues local businessman Russell Hawkins for saying he lied to a magistrate ... more

An illiterate schizophrenic man called by Channel Seven tells the NSW Supreme Court he doesn’t know what a mortgage is. Nevertheless he signed “business investment” loan papers totalling over $300,000 put before him by Newcastle mortgage broker Peter Mahommed ... more

The scabby world of low-doc loans slowly unravels in court 10E as Channel Seven defends its Today Tonight story on “dishonest” mortgage broker Peter Mahommed. Another David “Barcelona” Richardson special ... more