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Nine-owned Fairfax has denied that two Australian Financial Review articles implied that venture capitalist Dr Elaine Stead "deliberately" destroyed capital, as it seeks to significantly reduce the defamation case it faces.
Venture capitalist Dr Elaine Stead has taken the stand in a high-profile defamation case against the Nine-owned Fairfax, saying that she felt "shame, embarrassment, humiliation and guilt" over two allegedly defamatory Australian Financial Review articles about her role in the collapsed investment firm Blue Sky.
Former Blue Sky Capital venture capitalist Dr Elaine Stead is seeking over $671,000 in damages from the publisher of the Australian Financial Review over two articles she describes as a "misogynist attack" and "vitriolic abuse" that did significant damage to her professional reputation.
A judge has set aside a subpoena issued by venture capitalist Elaine Stead in her defamation lawsuit against Fairfax, saying subpoenas could not just be issued "willy nilly" to identify a journalist's confidential sources.
Lawyers from three newspapers being sued by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith for defamation are seeking sensitive documents alleged to show the former soldier asked his wife to lie about an affair.
The Daily Mail has fired back at a defamation lawsuit by sports broadcaster Erin Molan alleging its coverage of a remark she made during Nine's Continuous Call radio program implied she was a racist, telling the court that Molan has a history of "objectively racist" conduct on air.
The Nine Network has lost its challenge to a $3.7 million defamation judgment awarded to a prominent Queensland family over a 60 Minutes report that implied they were to blame for a 2011 flood event that killed 12 people.
A Melbourne-based solicitor has filed a defamation lawsuit against Nine Entertainment over a photograph used in an article about underworld figure Mick Gatto.