Former Attorney-General Christian Porter and senior barrister Sue Chrysanthou have met with partial success in an eleventh hour bid to halt an order for payment of a $430,000 bill in a court battle with a friend of Porter’s rape accuser.
Former Liberal power broker Marcus Bastiaan has accused Nine Entertainment of hiding behind āthe cloak of journalistic professional privilegeā in refusing to provide documentary evidence concerning the production of an alleged defamatory 60 Minutes report.
Liberal MP Andrew Laming has slammed the Nine Network for attempting to ābully and harassā him with its contextual truth defence to his lawsuit over an allegedly defamatory news segment that accused the Queensland politician of taking a lewd photograph.
A judge who has been an enthusiastic lab rat in the virtual hearing experiment forced on the country’s courts by the COVID-19 pandemic has expressed doubts that he is accurately reading witnessses giving remote evidence.
Western Australia premier Mark McGowan has been ordered to appear in person in a Sydney court to give evidence at trial in a defamation case by mining billionaire Clive Palmer, but a judge has pushed back the hearing so McGowan can attend state parliament.
Google has argued there would be a ādevastatingā effect on the internet if the High Court upholds a judgment awarded to gangland lawyer George Defteros that found the tech giant liable for linking to an allegedly defamatory article.
A new draft bill aimed at deterring social media trolls is unlikely to be as effective as incoming state-driven alternatives, the Law Council of Australia said in its submission to the federal government on Monday.
A court has made orders trimming the $990 hourly fee charged by a QC while representing Jo Dyer, a friend of the woman who accused Christian Porter of rape who succeeded in having silk Sue Chrysanthou removed from a defamation suit brought by the former attorney-general.
Trial plans in accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smithās defamation case against Nine have hit another roadblock because of COVID-19 restrictions, less than two weeks before the hearing is set to resume, with the media giant now suggesting a move to Western Australia.
Christian Porter and silk Sue Chrysanthou have been ordered to pay $430,200 in legal costs to Jo Dyer, a friend of the woman who accused Porter of rape, after she succeeded in having the barrister removed from the former attorney-generalās defamation lawsuit against the ABC.