A parade of actors are expected to take the stand and testify against Craig McLachlan at a trial that kicked off Monday in his defamation case against Rocky Horror Show co-star Christie Whelan Browne and publishers ABC and Fairfax.
Google has fought off a legal challenge to a decision rejecting a South Australian doctorâs bid to access search data and internal company documents in her second defamation claim against the tech giant over alleged defamatory material in search results.
Founder and former CEO of listed investment firm DomaCom is suing Nine over an episode of A Current Affair that allegedly suggested he was involved in a sham acquisition of agriculture company Austagri to boost his company’s share price.
A judge has struck out part of the ABC’s defence in a lawsuit by the head of Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves over an allegedly defamatory Four Corners report.
Former synagogue president and Victorian Liberal party treasurer David Mond is suing Nine-owned Fairfax, The Age and two journalists for defamation over three articles accusing him of deciding to host a speech by a convicted spy.
Counsel for Peter Dutton has told a court a reader needed to do âmental gymnasticsâ to understand activist Shane Bazziâs ârape apologistâ tweet as saying the minister doubted rape allegations rather than âexcusedâ the act of rape.
CEO and founder of Euro Pacific Bank Peter Schiff says Nine is refusing to meet his case âhead onâ in its defence to defamation claims over a 60 Minutes episode accusing the bank boss of endorsing tax evasion and helping figures in organised crime.
Two psychiatrists who administered the controversial deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s have won a Full Federal Court appeal in their defamation cases against publisher HarperCollins, with one of the cases being sent back for a re-trial.
Nine claims that any harm a Sydney barrister suffered from its allegedly defamatory coverage of her battle for custody of Oscar the cavoodle was mitigated by the truth of the imputation that she exploited the famed social media pooch for her benefit.
Nine has lost its bid to argue the substantial truth of an alleged defamatory imputation arising from its coverage of a custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the Cavoodle and has been taken to task by a judge for its delay in filing a defence in a defamation case, saying its excuse was no better than “the proverbial dog having eaten their homework”.