Mick Molloy and Network Ten have lost their defamation battle against Adelaide identity Nicole Cornes in a ruling that could have far ranging implications for free speech.
Defamation law
Crikey Says: A landmark legal test case?
Christopher Pyne said that Marieke Hardy’s piece published about him last year bothered him “not in the least bit.” So why is he now threatening to sue?
Posetti receives letter of demand from Chris Mitchell, and a special invitation
The editor in Chief of The Australian newspaper, Chris Mitchell, has sent a letter of demand to journalism academic, Julie Posetti, confirming he will pursue her for defamation over a series of tweets .
Note to The Australian: Twitter is not a newspaper
When Oz editor Chris Mitchell complains that Julie Posetti didn’t contact him to get his side of the story before tweeting, he completely misses the point.
Rundle: Mitchell’s own goal on the eco fascist line
If the editor of The Australian firms up defamation law as regards the metaphorical use of the “fascist” tag, then he will have handed innumerable people a precedent with which to target every News Ltd columnist and blogger who’s muttered about “greenshirts”, eco-Nazis or the like.
Why Allen & Unwin should have settled Crikey-style
The same group of barristers who once defended Crikey in a legal blitz barristers again came together in the long-running defamation action that saw barrister Dyson Hore-Lacy awarded $630,000 in damages from publisher Allen & Unwin for Phil Cleary’s book Getting Away With Murder.
Moves to define “journalism” in the eyes of the law
Astonishingly there is no definition of journalism in Australian law. That’s one of the revelations in the ALRC’s paper on privacy law reform and it’s of great relevance because the Commission wants to define journalism in a way that will reduce the media’s capacity to report freely.
Wh-res-and-all Packer bio a triumph of defamation reform
The republishing of Paul Barry’s biography on Kerry Packer is a fascinating example of the chilling effect of the old defamation laws.
