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Sacked sports journalist loses case over coverage of ‘vivid and disgusting’ workplace comments
A former rugby league journalist with Channel 7 has lost his defamation case over media reports, which alleged he threatened to rip the head off a young regional cadet, because the defamatory imputations were substantially true, judge has ruled.
Daughter of NRL legend wins $125,000 over false sex tape claim
The daughter of NRL great Mark Geyer has been awarded $125,000 in a defamation case against the owner of an NRL Memes page over a post wrongfully claiming she was involved in the Tyrone May sex scandal.
HR company loses fight with tax office after paying debt with wrong EFT number
The director of a defunct HR company has lost his bid to avoid paying a $384,000 tax bill after hundreds of thousands of dollars were sent to the tax office via the wrong EFT number and used to repay other debts the company owed.
In a first, judge says emoji ‘reasonably capable’ of being defamatory
In what is believed to be a first in Australia, a judge hearing a defamation case between two Sydney lawyers has found that an emoji is capable of carrying a defamatory imputation.