The ABC and Fairfax Media are appealing a ruling tossing their truth defence in a case brought by Chinese billionaire and philanthropist Dr Chau Chak Wing.
Geoffrey Rush’s legal team plans to question his King Lear co-star over a break-up with her partner, arguing the actress at the centre of a defamation case might have been distressed by the relationship split, not by any allegedly inappropriate behaviour by the Oscar-winning actor.
Broadcaster Alan Jones and two radio stations have been ordered to pay $3.75 million for defaming a prominent Queensland family by blaming them for the deaths of 12 people in the 2011 Grantham floods.
The Federal Court has ordered Queensland online news company Touchpoint Media to pay over $300,000 in wages owed to journalists and slapped the company with a $265,000 fine.
A judge has thrown out the truth defence claimed by the ABC and Fairfax Media in a case brought by Chinese billionaire and philanthropist Dr Chau Chak Wing.
A judge on Thursday struck out former Prime Minister Mark Latham’s defence in a defamation case filed against him by the political editor of pop culture site Junkee, calling it an “extraordinary document” and the “antithesis of a pleading”.
The Nine Network has defeated a bid by a property developer planning a defamation suit to block the television network from running an episode of “A Current Affair” that he says could harm his reputation.
The ACCC will decide by November 8 whether the proposed merger of Nine Entertainment with Fairfax Media raises competition concerns.
Employment law firm McDonald Murholme has lost an appeal in a case over $37,000 in unpaid bills for five months of radio advertisements on the Victorian Radio Network the firm said were ineffective.
The publisher of The Daily Telegraph has won its bid to bring a defence of justification against claims by actor Geoffrey Rush that the newspaper defamed him in articles alleging the actor behaved “inappropriately” during a production of King Lear at the Sydney Theatre Company.