The High Court has found the indefinite detention of an Iranian man is not unlawful because he could be removed to his home country were he to cooperate with immigration authorities.
A Kurdish refugee has lost his appeal seeking compensation for being kept in makeshift hotel detention centres for 14 months after a judge found the detention lacked “human decency” but was not unlawful.
A federal court judge has slammed Australia’s use of makeshift hotel detention centres as lacking “ordinary human decency”, but ruled they are not illegal in the case of a Kurdish refugee who was held for 14 months in two Melbourne hotels.
A judge has knocked back a bid by the Australian Federal Police to have an upcoming trial over an allegedly defamatory press conference run on a stripped-back ‘first impression’ basis.
Google has fought off a legal challenge to a decision rejecting a South Australian doctor’s bid to access search data and internal company documents in her second defamation claim against the tech giant over alleged defamatory material in search results.
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The High Court has ruled that refugees and asylum seekers can sue the government in Federal Court for allegedly breaching its duty of care by failing to provide them with proper medical care while detained in the government’s custody.
Google has been ordered to pay Melbourne gangland lawyer George Defteros $40,000 after it was found to have defamed him by publishing a link to an article that implied he had “crossed the already blurred line” between being a criminal solicitor and being a confidant to his underworld clients.
A judge has refused to summarily dismiss a defamation case brought by a government worker against Twitter, Google and Yahoo over racist, homophobic, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial tweets resulting from an alleged identity theft.
Two petitioners challenging the election of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and embattled Liberal MP Gladys Liu have subpoenaed the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Sky News for interview footage in front of the Chinese language posters at the heart of the dispute.