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| Dossier December 3, 2009 | |
| Trad's appeal arguable | |
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Keysar Trad’s appeal challenged … Palace Cinemas sue The Australian Financial Review and Screen Hub ... Greens MP Ian Cohen’s $1million loss … Imputations weeded out in Victoria and NSW … What sources? Bec Hewitt gets her costs … Expensive Queensland suits ... more |
| Dossier October 15, 2009 | |
| Damage control | |
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Nationwide News settles with Tania Zaetta at the eleventh hour … Ian Thorpe drops action against French newspaper … Professor Bruce Hall appeals “perverse” jury verdict … Taxi tsar sues The Sydney Morning Herald over investigative series … Drummoyne newsletter defamations finally get a hearing … Jeremy Griffith’s appeal adjourned … High Court grants Paul Hogan special leave ... more |
| Dossier September 6, 2009 | |
| Settlement fever | |
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Settlements everywhere … The NRL’s favourite groupie Charmyne “Cougar” Palavi sues 2UE for calling her a slut … Bollywood star Tania Zaetta’s forthcoming trial takes an unusual turn … Australian soldier labelled “too fat to fight” sues the Courier-Mail ... Channel Seven Sydney appeals $240,000 damages payout to mortgage broker it called “dishonest” ... more |
| Dossier August 10, 2009 | |
| Defamation diaspora | |
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Justice Peter McClellan wants to send defamation cases down to the Dizzo … NSW premier manqué John Della Bosca’s case against The Telegraph ... Ex-lover of former Liberal MP Trish Draper not lying down … The ABC under fire from Labor lobbyist Nick Bolkus and retired Victorian copper Lance Marke … Former federal Labor hopeful Nicole Cornes sues comedian Mick Molloy … Porn king action against The Sydney Morning Herald ... Pets At Peace sue Today Tonight ... Who’s appealing ... more |
| Dossier June 19, 2009 | |
| Unsettling settlements | |
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Grovels all round as Fairfax Media settles with the Foundation for Humanity’s Adulthood and Nationwide News settles with the redhead from Ipswich over those photos … Scientologists fail to stop Today Tonight story … Sydney Morning Herald holds off on erectile dysfunction injunction … “Cabbie” magazine’s special leave goes nowhere … George Paradisis’ no-show ends in a strike-out … Perth high-flyer Norm Carey sues over Four Corners program ... more |
| Dossier May 15, 2009 | |
| For love and money | |
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Former NSW upper house MP Peter Breen settles with former coppers … Aboriginal mental health worker sues The Daily Examiner ... NSW Greens MP Ian Cohen seeks special leave to appeal property developer’s victory … Defamation fever in Adelaide judicial and parliamentary circles … Fairmont Resort fails to injunct A Current Affair ... Victorian bushfires Royal Commissioners attempt unprecedented media management ... more |
| Dossier April 23, 2009 | |
| All cut up | |
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Medical entrepreneur sues The Financial Review ... Former Wollongong City Council employee settles sexual harassment defamation suit … Former Commonwealth Bank employee sues Fairfax and the bank for alleging she lied about being sexually harassed … Former manager of Glenn Innes nursing home pleads 18 imputations over leaflet … Press Freedom Media Dinner details … More defamation fallout from the ICAC inquiry into Wollongong City Council … Tragic end to 2CCC defamation action ... more |
| Dossier March 12, 2009 | |
| Humanity's price | |
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The Foundation for Humanity’s Adulthood ordered to pay $500,000 in security for costs … Dr William McBride settles his defamation action after nearly 20 years … The West Australian fails to have Catholic Archbishop of Perth’s action struck out … Former parishioner sues Anglican Church over email alleging sexual harassment … Hair and car care tycoon loses bid to force Melbourne’s Herald Sun to disclose confidential sources ... more |
| Dossier March 6, 2009 | |
| Appeals, settlements and other distractions | |
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Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib continues to appeal … More perversity for the NSW Court of Appeal … Settlement for old adversaries Alan Jones and Olympic boss John Coates … Freedom of Speech conference details … An assault of new defamation actions against Fairfax, Nationwide News and Channel Seven ... more |
| Dossier March 4, 2009 | |
| High stakes | |
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The High Court has heard three defamation matters in the past month, with varying degrees of interest. A damages appeal was hosed out … The new Chief Justice Robert French floated a simple test for “defamatory” in the context of submissions about “business defamation” ... Justice William Gummow wanted to know the meaning of the word “journalist” ... more |
| Dossier February 6, 2009 | |
| McBride Revisited | |
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Thalidomide scientist Dr William McBride’s defamation action to be heard after 19 years … Putting on the writs in Moree and Canberra … Settlements for alleged bank robber and leading Tasmanian silk … Three Triple M appeals $350,000 damages payout to Olympic cyclist Mark French … Security for costs the order of the day … Nationwide News seeks special leave over doubling of “supporter of terrorism” damages … Justice Virginia Bell has the last word on the joys of section 7A … more |