Actor Christie Whelan Browne has sued the theatre company behind the 2014 production of the Rocky Horror Show alleging she was discriminated against and subjected to repeated sexual harassment at the hands of a fellow actor.
A psychiatrist has reached a confidential settlement with Harper Collins in his defamation case over a book about the controversial deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s.
A judge has shaved $80,000 off the damages recently awarded to a Papua New Guinea politician who sued Fairfax Media over a series of articles published in the Australian Financial Review, after finding she wrongly discounted a mitigation defence by the publisher.
The High Court has declined HarperCollins’ special leave application seeking to appeal a decision that revived a psychiatrist’s defamation case over a book about the controversial deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s.
Nine-owned Fairfax Media has been ordered to pay a $545,000 to a Papua New Guinea politician who sued the publisher for defamation over a series of articles published in the Australian Financial Review, which a judge found were “replete with errors and misrepresentations.”
A psychiatrist that sued HarperCollins for defamation over a book on the use of deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s has lost his bid to disallow the publisher’s claim that any damage he suffered was mitigated by his bad reputation.
Education superannuation fund NGS Super has filed a trade mark lawsuit against Australian blockchain mining company NGS Crypto, claiming it failed to comply with a promise to rebrand and continues to profit at the fund’s expense.
US-based mozzarella giant Leprino Foods has succeeded in removing Canadian dairy company Saputo’s ‘Ascend’ trade mark for non-use.
Nine Network has apologised to former member for Bowman, Andrew Laming, over a news segment that accused him of taking a lewd photograph, having struck a confidential settlement after the broadcaster dropped all defences to the politician’s defamation case.
Former Channel 7 rugby league journalist Josh Massoud has lost an appeal of a decision clearing multiple media outlets of defamation over reports alleging he threatened to kill and defile the corpse of a young reporter.