Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has faced cross-examination over text messages to his girlfriend in which he said he received legal advice that he could get “millions” if he filed a defamation case against Network Ten over its airing of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, a court has heard.
Network Ten and News Corp have mounted truth defences in response to a defamation suit by accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann, arguing the claim that he raped fellow Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019 is substantially true.
Television presenter Lisa Wilkinson has filed her defence to a defamation suit by accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann, arguing the claim that he raped fellow Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019 is substantially true.
Nine has defeated a bid to strike out its truth defences in a defamation case by a Melbourne hairdresser alleging a segment on ‘A Current Affair’ about ‘internet trolls’ and subsequent comments on the program’s Facebook page defamed her.
The High Court has agreed to weigh in on whether Mitsubishi can be sued over allegedly misleading fuel efficiency representations on a label affixed to the windshield of a Triton 4WD that was required by law.
Facing defamation claims by well-known surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis, Nine will call at least 27 witnesses and argue for the public interest of its coverage of allegations by patients of inadequate post-surgery care, a court has heard.
The publisher of the Herald Sun has won a bid to include the drug-related arrest of a prominent Melbourne lawyer in its “bad reputation” defence to the solicitor’s defamation action.
Two former directors of the Australian unit of BCEG have lost their “urgent” bid to vary freezing orders after a judge found they swindled millions from the company to fund their own developments and buy a luxury apartment.
A judge has found Nine should not face an out-of-time defamation action over an allegedly defamatory episode of A Current Affair that aired in 2019.
Thomson Geer has lured a long-standing partner from Adelaide firm Finlaysons to lead its banking and finance team after its former banking head partner decided to end his 40-year stint with the firm.