A judge has refused to summarily dismiss a defamation case brought by a government worker against Twitter, Google and Yahoo over racist, homophobic, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial tweets resulting from an alleged identity theft.
Fairfax Media has failed in its appeal of a judgment that found the publisher defamed Chinese-Australian businessman Dr Chau Chak Wing in a Sydney Morning Herald article that linked him to an international bribery scandal.
The former boss of Sydney’s 2GB and Melbourne’s 3AW radio stations, Adam Lang, has resolved his defamation case against the publisher of the Daily Telegraph over articles he claimed portrayed him as an incompetent, sadistic executive who created a toxic work atmosphere.
Venture capitalist Elaine Stead is pushing forward with her defamation case against the Nine-owned Fairfax Media despite what she has called an “inadequate” third attempt at a defence by the publisher.
A theatre producer facing a lawsuit by his former collaborators for stealing the script for his off-Broadway puppet show parody of the 80s TV sitcom Golden Girls has lost his own legal action against them, which alleged they defamed him and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct by talking to a New York Times reporter about their lawsuit.
Google has been hit with a third preliminary discovery lawsuit seeking the identity of online reviewers, this time by a Melbourne brothel and escort service seeking to eliminate 11 one-star reviews from the search engine.
A Sydney-based childcare centre that sent an allegedly defamatory email to 35 people has won its appeal of a $238,000 damages award, with an appeals court calling the figure “manifestly excessive” and questioning the “fundamental approach to damages” in defamation cases in NSW.
The head of Racing NSW has hit the ABC with a defamation lawsuit over a ‘7:30’ segment that revealed racehorses were being slaughtered in violation of industry rules.
Suspended rugby player Jack de Belin has hit the publisher of The Daily Telegraph with a defamation lawsuit over an article, cartoon and tweet that allegedly implied he was a “rapist” and a “despicable person”.
Prominent criminal barrister Zarah Garde-Wilson has asked a court for an order compelling search engine giant Google to hand over information identifying a contributor who posted a negative review of her Melbourne-based law firm.