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Racing NSW CEO Peter V'landys AM has lost his defamation case against the ABC, with a judge rejected allegations a 7.30 segment, which revealed racehorses were being slaughtered in violation of industry rules, was defamatory.
Ben Roberts-Smith threatened legal action against his ex-wife, who is set to give evidence against him in an upcoming defamation trial, if she disclosed information to Fairfax’s lawyers that is subject to a confidentiality agreement, a court has heard.
A judge overseeing Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case against Fairfax has refused a bid by the publisher to bolster its defence with further allegations of criminal conduct by the soldier, who told the court Friday former Governor-General Quentin Bryce will give evidence for him at the upcoming trial.
The former wife of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith will testify at an upcoming hearing that he lied about matters that are "centrally relevant" to his defamation case against three newspapers, a court has heard.
A Sydney solicitor has won an extension of time to file a defamation case against Network Ten after an appeals court found he had valid reason for not bringing the case by the one-year deadline -- fighting criminal charges that were eventually dropped.
A lawyer who a judge accused of "abysmal arrogance and sense of privilege" has won her appeal of a ruling ordering her to pay $360,000 to her Balmain neighbour after a long-running property dispute culminated in an allegedly defamatory interview that was broadcast to over one million TV viewers on A Current Affair.
Chinese businessman Dr Chau Chak Wing has been awarded $590,000 in a Federal Court judgment that found an ABC Four Corner's report contained "untrue and seriously defamatory imputations" about alleged espionage, bribery of UN leaders, and links to the Chinese Communist Party.
A judge has shot down a bid by Nine, the ABC and a high-profile journalist to use articles reporting on Dr Chau Chak Wing's $280,000 defamation victory as evidence mitigating the harm to his reputation from a report at the centre of a separate defamation case.
Lawyers from three newspapers being sued by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith for defamation are seeking sensitive documents alleged to show the former soldier asked his wife to lie about an affair.
In airing a ‘7:30' segment that revealed racehorses were being slaughtered in violation of industry rules, the ABC acted with malice in what was a "set up" designed to make the head of Racing NSW "look bad", a court has heard.