Two axed executives of real estate broker Jones Lang LaSalle have sued the publisher of The Australian over articles they say destroyed their professional reputations and cost them up to $15 million each in earnings.
Australia’s most-decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost his bid for special leave from the High Court to appeal a judge’s findings that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
Disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is digging in with his attack on a judge’s findings that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, asking the High Court to find in his favour in a defamation case against Nine.
In tossing his challenge to a finding that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, an appeals court rejected Ben Roberts-Smith’s criticisms of the trial judge, finding the judge gave sufficient weight to the presumption of innocence.
A court has rejected Ben Roberts-Smith’s appeal of a decision that found he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, as well as the disgraced soldier’s bid to re-open the case in light of a secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie.
A secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie speaking to a witness in the case may have been “doctored” and had to be “treated with caution,” the Full Court said Friday.
A former Slater & Gordon executive who says she was wrongfully accused of sending a firm-wide email with sensitive salary data has sued the law firm for negligence, saying it should have done more to exonerate her.
A witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith case threatened to sue Nine and journalist Nick McKenzie, the Full Court has learned, as the former soldier seeks to reopen his appeal following the release of a secret recording of a conversation between McKenzie and the witness.
A court has allowed Ben Roberts-Smith to admit into evidence a secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie, as the former soldier makes a fresh bid to revive his failed defamation case.
Nine journalist Nick McKenzie was pressed during cross-examination on Thursday in Ben Roberts-Smith’s bid to re-open his defamation appeal on whether he has used deceptive methods or ‘subterfuge’ in his reporting.