Justice Michael Wigney

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has succeeded in overturning a defamation judgment requiring her to pay $250,000 in damages to former colleague Brian Burston, with the Full Federal Court finding an allegation of sexual abuse against Burston was substantially true.

Insurer Vero is fighting a ruling that added it to a class action against cladding manufacturer Fairview Architectural over allegedly combustible cladding. 

An appeals court has dismissed the appeal of Daniel Taylor, son of notorious former Kings Cross nightclub owner John Ibrahim, seeking to revive defamation claims over a 2019 article in The Sunday Telegraph which he claimed suggested he was a mobster. 

A judge has ruled insurer Vero can be added to a class action over allegedly combustible cladding, finding removal of the cladding could be considered “property damage” under the wording of an insurance contract with cladding manufacturer Fairview.

Racing NSW CEO Peter V’landys AM has failed to revive his defamation case against the ABC over a 7:30 segment that revealed racehorses were being killed in violation of industry rules, despite the appeals court noting that the report “treated him very shabbily” and “was not high quality journalism.”

The authorised representative of forex broker Union Standard can’t exclude parts of an opinion by an ASIC-appointed expert in a case alleging it traded in margin products with Chinese clients despite knowing it was illegal under Chinese law.

Crikey publisher Private Media has filed a new contextual truth defence to defamation claims brought by Lachlan Murdoch, arguing the Fox News CEO is “morally and ethically culpable” for the January 6 riot on the US Capitol.

The judge overseeing a defamation action brought by Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch over a Crikey article that allegedly linked him to the January 6 riot on the US Capital has questioned the “scorched earth policy” taken by both sides.

Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch wants a court to decide before trial whether a Crikey article published last year that allegedly linked him to the US Capital riot was defamatory. 

A class action by property owners against the manufacturer and supplier of alleged combustible cladding has lost a bid for sales figures to estimate the value of their claims as the parties head into settlement negotiations next month.