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Seven hit with $200k defamation judgment over coverage of NRL match
Defamation 2025-02-07 4:19 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai Sydney

Seven Network and Chanel 7 have been hit with a $200,000 defamation judgment for implying three men involved an incident during a 2020 NRL match were racist.

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Tech start-up Dovetail seeks to suppress ‘scandalous’ lawsuit
Employment 2025-02-04 3:24 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai Sydney

Lawyers for tech start-up Dovetail want the Federal Court to suppress the details of a “scandalous” lawsuit brought against the company and its CEO by an in-house lawyer.

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‘Parties have gone feral’: Judge bemoans fee spat in barrister’s case against Nine
Defamation 2025-01-30 11:04 pm By Andy Sidler Melbourne

Barrister Gina Edwards, who won her defamation case over Oscar the cavoodle, is locked in a fight with Nine and her former solicitor over fees, in what a judge has described as a “dog’s breakfast”.

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Reporter settles sex discrimination case against Nine
Employment 2025-01-20 5:59 pm By Andy Sidler Melbourne

A long-time Nine Network reporter has settled her sex discrimination claims against her former employer.

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Palm Island class action seeks court OK for ‘substantial’ settlement with Nine
Class Actions 2024-09-16 3:59 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A court has been asked to bless a “substantial” $3 million settlement in a class action against Nine over its coverage of litigation related to the 2004 Palm Island riots.

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High Court won’t hear promoter’s spat with Nine unit over One Direction tour
Entertainment 2024-08-12 11:17 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court has denied the special leave application of a Sydney concert promoter seeking a cut of the profits earned by Nine unit TEG Live for promoting a 2013 Australian tour with English-Irish boy band One Direction. In orders handed down on Thursday, the High Court declined promoter Mark Filby’s bid for review of…

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Full Court revives defamation case over A Current Affair episode
Defamation 2024-07-31 11:01 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

The Full Federal Court has revived an out-of-time defamation case over an episode of A Current Affair, finding that it would not have been reasonable to file the proceedings within a year given the “spectre of criminal proceedings” against Queensland man Geoffrey Landrey.

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Judge says exec’s suit against Westpac a ‘private dispute’, suppresses case docs
Employment 2024-07-25 11:11 pm By Christine Caulfield

Characterising a settled lawsuit by a Westpac senior executive alleging employment breaches as a “private” matter, a judge has made broad confidentiality orders that bar public access to the case.

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Nine fights Westpac’s bid to block media from reporting on ex-head of strategy’s case
Employment 2024-07-03 11:44 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Federal Court must guard against “exceptions by accretion” when weighing Westpac’s application to prevent the public from accessing documents filed in a lawsuit by the bank’s former head of strategy, which has resolved in a confidential settlement, a judge heard Wednesday.

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Nine to pay $3M to settle class action over Palm Island coverage
Class Actions 2024-07-01 11:59 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Nine will pay $3 million to settle a class action over its coverage of litigation related to the 2004 Palm Island riots, it has been revealed, after the class action failed to suppress the settlement sum.

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