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Fairfax Media is challenging a ruling ordering it to pay $280,000 in damages to Chau Chak Wing for an allegedly defamatory article that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald linking the wealthy Chinese-Australian businessman to an international bribery scandal.
Leading defamation barrister Bruce McClintock, SC, has stepped down from representing cricketer Chris Gayle as an appeal by three media organisations against a $326,000 payout gets locked in for a June hearing.
A woman who shared a link to a defamatory video on her Facebook page and was ordered to pay $18,880 in damages has won leave to appeal a ruling that slashed the award to $400 but still found her liable for defamation.
Wealthy Chinese-Australian businessman Chau Chak Wing has won $280,000 in damages in his defamation case against the Sydney Morning Herald over an article he said falsely linked him to an international bribery scandal.
A judge has gutted Buzzfeed's truth defence in a defamation case brought by Labor MP Emma Husar accusing the news publisher of "slut shaming" her, saying the claims said to back the defence were "incapable" of supporting its case.
Media organisations ABC and Fairfax have argued that a judge's definition of espionage was "artificially narrow" when striking out their truth defence to a defamation case brought by Chinese philanthropist Dr Chau Chak Wing.
Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm has lost his challenge to a ruling that denied his request for speedy dismissal of a defamation lawsuit by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young on the grounds of Parliamentary privilege.
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has slammed Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm's attempt to stay her defamation case against him without providing evidence that the alleged misandrist comments at the heart of the proceedings were spoken in Parliament.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who is suing fellow senator David Leyonhjelm for defamation, has asked a court for the costs of having her lawyers appear at a hearing for which his side failed, without explanation, to appear.
A key prospective witness in the Ben-Roberts Smith defamation proceedings can continue to have her identity suppressed, after a judge found there was "sufficient risk" to her safety if it was revealed.