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Nine can argue MP Andrew Laming a ‘creep’ in defamation defence
Banki Haddock Fiora 2022-02-04 10:38 am By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has allowed Nine Network to claim that MP Andrew Laming is a ‘creep’ in its contextual truth defence to the Queensland politician’s defamation lawsuit over a news segment that accused him of taking a lewd photograph.

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Christian Porter, silk win stay of $430,000 legal bill in feud with accuser’s friend
Callan O’Neill 2022-02-02 9:42 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Liberal MP Andrew Laming looks to strike out Nine’s ‘desperate’ defamation defence
Banki Haddock Fiora 2022-01-28 5:28 pm By Bianca Hrovat

Liberal MP Andrew Laming has slammed the Nine Network for attempting to “bully and harass” 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.

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Christian Porter loses court bid for notes of meeting between silk, accuser’s friend
ABC 2021-11-17 11:17 am By Miklos Bolza

A judge has denied former Attorney-General Christian Porter access to material about a crucial meeting involving Jo Dyer, the friend of a woman who accused him of rape, which he sought to bolster his appeal of the removal of silk Sue Chrysanthou from his now-settled defamation case against the ABC.

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Christian Porter targets former Solicitor-General’s briefs in Jo Dyer appeal
ABC 2021-10-15 2:45 pm By Miklos Bolza

Former Attorney-General Christian Porter wants to rely on new evidence relating to former Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson SC as he appeals the removal of his high profile silk from a now settled defamation case against the ABC over its coverage of historical rape allegations.

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Brother of NBA star wins $550,000 in defamation damages against sister
Barry Dean 2021-09-14 4:32 pm By Christine Caulfield

The sister of NBA star Ben Simmons has been ordered to pay $550,000 in damages to half-brother Sean Tribe for a series of Tweets alleging Tribe sexually molested her as a child.

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Christian Porter wins bid to block media from using secret parts of ABC defence
ABC 2021-08-31 10:41 am By Cindy Cameronne

Liberal MP Christian Porter has won his bid to block Nine and News Corp from using secret portions of ABC’s defence to his defamation allegations that the media giants accessed as intervenors in the former Attorney-General’s case.

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Liberal MP Andrew Laming sues Nine over ‘accusatory and spiteful’ coverage of upskirt photo
Company Giles 2021-08-30 5:52 pm By Miklos Bolza

Queensland Liberal MP Andrew Laming has sued Nine Network for defamation over a Nine News segment which alleged that he took a photograph of a female employee bending over at a Brisbane landscaping yard.

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‘Completely off the track’: Judge got it wrong in deep sleep therapy case, Full Court told
Anais d'Arville 2021-08-23 9:17 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge who dismissed a defamation case against HarperCollins by two psychiatrists who administered the controversial deep sleep therapy at Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s was criticised Monday for her ‘presumptuous cynicism’.

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Christian Porter wants court to ‘protect his reputation’, Nine tells judge
ABC 2021-08-18 4:21 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Liberal MP Christian Porter is effectively asking the court to “protect his reputation” by seeking to block Nine and NewsCorp from using secret portions of the ABC’s defence to his defamation allegations, Nine told a judge in opposing the move.

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