Category: Truth

Nationwide News wins its truth case against Daniel Snedden (aka Captain Dragan). After considering some “harrowing” evidence, NSW Supreme Court Justice Megan Latham concludes that the alleged Serbian war criminal is just that ... more

The Sunday Telegraph enjoys a rare double victory as Justice Peter Johnson upholds the defences of truth and qualified privilege. Filthy rooms, rude service, poor quality food, no hot water, incompetent management – it was all true of Archer Field’s Jenolan Caves House ... more

South Australian Supreme Court Justice David Bleby dismisses hard-fought defamation action brought by the former boyfriend of Liberal MP Trish Draper against Channel Seven and the ABC. He finds Derick Sands lied comprehensively in relation to the murder of Corinna Marr ... more

Muslim community spokesman Keysar Trad loses his defamation action against 2GB in spectacular fashion. NSW Chief Judge at Common Law Peter McClellan upholds the defences of truth, comment and qualified privilege, finding Trad a dangerous individual who incites acts of violence and racist attitudes ... more

NSW Court of Appeal asked to overturn Nationwide News victory against former terrorist suspect Mamdouh Habib on the basis that Justice Peter McClellan wrongly admitted evidence obtained after he was tortured in Pakistan and Guantanamo Bay ... more

Truth wins case for Fairfax as Justice John Hislop finds former mortgage broker Geoffrey King (Orsborn) deceived a borrower by failing to disclose that his wife, Paris King Orsborn, was the lender ... more

The NSW Court of Appeal finds that Acting Justice Cooper erred comprehensively – in relation to justification and by failing to consider any other defences in Gold Coast marketeer Ron Cross’ action against The Courier-Mail. Justice Margaret Beazley orders another trial ... more

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib (pic) loses his defamation suit against The Daily Telegraph. Justice Peter McClellan finds he wasn’t telling the truth about a number of things, including that he’d never been to Afghanistan ... more

Rare win for media as celebrity photojournalist Jamie Fawcett suffers a spectacular loss in his defamation action against The Sun Herald. Justice Carolyn Simpson finds Fawcett is a “cowboy” who placed a bug outside Nicole Kidman’s home and caused havoc in her private life. ... more

Gold bullion in the Philippines, platinum reserves in Siberia, crude oil from Saudi Arabia, hospitals in China, low-cost housing in Colombia, worm farms in the US. Justice McClellan presides over an extraordinary week of evidence from alleged conman “Sir” Roland Bleyer ... more

Court 12B in the NSW Supreme Court was the scene of another Vietnam war, this time between anti-communist activist Thuyen Nguyen and the Vietnamese publishers who called him a “Cheating Bachelor”. Tears flow in second-leg defamation trial ... more

NSW Court of Appeal moans about arcane defamation complications and deplorable delays as defendant’s defences are restored in Ainsworth case ... more