Former Melbourne Demons chairman Glen Bartlett has been given the green light to relaunch a defamation case against the AFL club’s president and other senior officials after discontinuing proceedings that were transferred from his home state of Western Australia to Victoria.
Former president of the Melbourne Football Club and Clayton Utz veteran Glen Bartlett has lost a bid to keep his defamation case against four MFC board members in Western Australia, with a judge finding the “relevant characters overwhelmingly continue to live in Melbourne.”
The former directors of an Isreali life sciences company have been hit with $190,000 in damages after a judge found they maliciously defamed a former colleague in a series of ASX announcements and letters.
A judge has slammed the lawyers in a $27 million trust dispute between a Chinese machinery company and law firm Clyde & Co for engaging in “inflammatory” correspondence instead of properly conferring before bringing their case to court.
A law firm with a global footprint is facing a possible breach of trust lawsuit in relation to $27 million it held as security for costs in an international arbitration.
A judge overseeing former Liberal politician Dennis Jensen’s defamation case against News Corp has denied him access to the identity of anonymous sources who leaked information to the publisher, including erotic passages from his unpublished novel, which led to him being dumped from the party.