Nationwide News may not accept liability for a series of allegedly defamatory tweets published from reporter Miranda Devine’s personal account about 9-year-old Quaden Bayles, telling a judge the tweets were “private”.
An Australian mother who posted a viral video of her son, who suffers from achondroplasia dwarfism, following a bullying incident has hit the Daily Telegraph’s publisher with a defamation lawsuit over a reporter’s retweet of conspiracy theories that the video was a fake.
Australia’s bushfire crisis has led to calls for a class action against a government perceived to be liable for its inaction on climate change. But representative proceedings may not have a high chance of success, a lawyer has told Lawyerly.
The NSW Supreme Court has approved a settlement in Australia’s first privacy class action, which was brought against the NSW government over a data breach by a contractor who sold private details of 130 ambulance workers to personal injury law firms, including Bannister Law.
A class action against the NSW government over a contractor who took private details of 130 ambulance workers to on-sell to personal injury law firms, including Bannister Law, has settled.
A class action against the NSW government over a contractor who sold the personal details of 130 ambulance workers to personal injury law firms has flagged it may subpoena the founder and principal of Bannister Law, which purchased the confidential information.
A judge overseeing a class action against the NSW government over a contractor who sold injured workers’ information to Bannister Law has questioned the effectiveness of placing ads for group members on law firm websites, saying she didn’t think it would “draw the matter to anyone’s attention”.