The former Cambodian prime minister’s nephew has pared back truth defences to his defamation claims, but his alleged bad reputation remains to be confronted.
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.
The publishers of The Australian and Al Jazeera have failed to persuade a judge to hold a preliminary hearing on the question of whether the nephew of the former prime minister of Cambodia suffered serious harm as a result of publications he says painted him as a criminal.
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has accused the Australian Broadcasting Corporation of a “contemptuous attempt” to prejudice the jury in a criminal trial over his alleged rape of former colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has filed defamation proceedings against the ABC, the third such lawsuit he has brought after suing Ten and a News Corp Unit over publications airing the rape allegations of his former colleague Brittany Higgins.
A judge has rejected a bid by The Project presenter Lisa Wilkinson to discover a 39,000-page AFP report outlining the contents of accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann’s phone, calling it “a classic fishing expedition.”
A judge has expressed “reluctance” at a bid for accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann to face cross-examination at an upcoming hearing over whether his defamation claims against Network Ten, News Corp and two journalists should be tossed for being brought out of time.
Nine Entertainment and Marcus Bastiaan have reached a settlement which includes a contribution to legal costs but no damages in a defamation case over a 60 Minutes segment accusing the former Liberal powerbroker of branch stacking.
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 High Court has rejected a special leave application by underworld figure Mick Gatto seeking to revive defamation claims against the ABC over an article which he said accused him of threatening to kill gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo.