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‘Abysmal arrogance’: Lawyer hit with $300,000 damages bill after neighbourhood dispute
A judge has slammed a lawyer for her "abysmal arrogance and sense of privilege", ordering her to pay $300,000 to her Balmain neighbour after a long-running property dispute culminated in a defamatory interview that was broadcast to over one million TV viewers on A Current Affair.
Royal commission docs can be used in HarperCollins deep sleep defamation case
A judge has given the green light for HarperCollins to use several documents from a royal commission in its defence of defamation proceedings brought against it by two psychiatrists at the centre of the deep sleep therapy scandal that rocked the medical world in the 1960s and 70s.
Pan Macmillan settles crime book defamation case for $100,000 after defence struck out
Publisher Pan Macmillan and nightclub magnate John Ibrahim have reached a $100,000 settlement in a defamation case brought by Sydney identity Thomas Domican over what a judge called a "fleeting reference" in Ibrahim's autobiography.
Pan Macmillan’s ‘tenuous’ defence struck out in defamation suit over Kings Cross crime book
The Federal Court has partially struck out publisher Pan Macmillan Australia's defence in a defamation case brought by Sydney identity Thomas Domican over a "fleeting reference" in a book by nightclub magnate John Ibrahim.