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Network Ten will be forced to transfer the entirety of its shares in joint venture TX Australia to rival free-to-air networks Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment for a paltry $1, following a court ruling Tuesday.
The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has agreed to suppress the name of a transgender woman taking legal action against Nationwide News, which has been accused of "vilifying" transgender people in a Daily Telegraph article.
The Full Federal Court has dismissed Nationwide News' application for leave to appeal Justice Michael Wigney's March judgment in the hotly contested Geoffrey Rush defamation case that shot down the publisher's truth defense.
A judge has rejected an attempt by Nationwide News to drag the Sydney Theatre Company into a defamation case brought by actor Geoffrey Rush, calling its argument for filing a cross-claim against the theatre company "very weak, if not tenuous".
A defamation case against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by Nauru's Justice Minister David Adeang that was set down for trial in July has been sent to mediation by a busy Federal Court judge, who said he would not be available to hear the trial for another year.
A judge has dismissed a second defamation case against Fairfax Media brought by an associate of a murdered Sydney businessman, ruling the plaintiff waived his right to sue again after dropping an earlier suit against the publisher for a $75,000 payout.
A barrister for the Australian Writers’ Guild has blasted documents produced by the non-profit Screenrights in a court battle over tens of millions of dollars in royalties payments, calling the evidence a "complete mishmash".
A barrister for actor Geoffrey Rush has accused Nationwide News of wanting to change its defence purely to gain access to Sydney Theatre Company documents blocked by an earlier judgment.
Nationwide News has moved to appeal after a ruling in a closely-watched defamation case by actor Geoffrey Rush that struck down one of Nationwide's key defences.
The head of Australia's consumer regulator says the agency will look at whether Facebook is misleading users about how it collects and uses their data, in light of revelations that millions of Facebook users unknowingly had their data harvested by political research firm Cambridge Analytica.