Victorian Liberal deputy leader Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, have launched the first privacy suit of its kind over two Herald Sun articles that speculated about whether their relationship began when Brittany was underage.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis has appealed his loss in a defamation case against Fairfax and its owner Nine, after a judge found media reports of unethical and profit-driven promotion of an experimental procedure were substantially true.
Journalist Lisa Wilkinson has told a court her qualified privilege defence was wrongly rejected in ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case, arguing the trial judge focused too heavily on the Network Ten’s reporting of the difficulties Brittany Higgins faced in reporting the rape at the centre of the case.
Network Ten has attacked the “perversity” of ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s argument that a judge’s finding that he raped former colleague Brittany Higgins should be overturned because the trial judge did not accept every detail of Higgins’ account.
A lawyer representing a production company that alleges Rebel Wilson “deliberately undermined” the distribution of her movie, The Deb, says the director repeated “false and derogatory statements” after the suit was filed.
The owner of Melbourne jazz venue Bird’s Basement has been given the greenlight to pursue defamation action, lodged after the one-year deadline, over an AFR report on a former employee’s case.
A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.
Nine has argued a contempt bid by intervenors in Antoinette Latouff’s dismissal suit against the ABC is “doomed” given the articles at issue were published a year before a suppression order was made.
Former Victorian Liberal Party leader John Pesutto has been hit with a bankruptcy notice after failing to pay $2.3 million in costs in MP Moira Deeming’s defamation suit over statements implying she had links to neo-Nazis.
Former Victorian Liberal party leader John Pesutto has been ordered to pay $2.3 million in costs in MP Moira Deeming’s defamation suit over statements found to have conveyed that she had links to neo-Nazis.