Author adminPosted on Categories Defamation Leave a comment on Linda Reynolds wins defamation case against Brittany Higgins
Former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has been awarded $315,000 plus interest in her defamation claim against Brittany Higgins after the WA Supreme Court found Higgins defamed her in a series of social media posts.
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Victorian MP Moira Deeming has won her defamation claim against Liberal leader John Pesutto with an award of $300,000 in damages.
The rally
Moira Deeming, a First-term Liberal MP attended and was one of a series of speakers at a rally held on the steps of Victoria’s parliament in March 2023.
The rally was co-organised by the UK gender-critical activist Kellie-Jay Keen, as part of Keen’s “Let Women Speak” tour of Australia and New Zealand last year, which held rallies in several cities about how the push for transgender rights was negatively impacting women. The rally was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis, who performed the Sieg Heil salute on the front steps of parliament.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Defamation Leave a comment on John Peros loses defamation claim about Shandee Blackburn murder
In 2013, Shandee Renee Blackburn, a 23 year old woman, was murdered in Mackay whilst walking home alone from her workplace. She had been stabbed 23 times in multiple places including the neck, head, and chest, including defensive wounds on her arms.
On 4 September 2014, Shandee Blackburn’s ex-boyfriend John Peros was arrested and charged for her murder. He was subsequently acquitted by a jury.
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In the saga that never ends, the Honourable Justice Lee handed down his costs judgment after a marathon defamation trial where Bruce Lehrmann lost his defamation claim. His Federal Court of Australia claim was dismissed, because, on the balance of probabilities, it was found that he had raped Brittany Higgins. But the qualified privilege defence failed.
In the words of Justice Lee:
“The result is best characterised as the respondents overcoming a misconceived claim in relation to a broadcast because they were able to prove at trial the substantial truth of what the contemporaneous material demonstrates they considered to be the less substantial allegation made in the broadcast.”
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Author adminPosted on Categories Defamation 2 Comments on Bruce fought the law and the law won
Bruce Lehrmann bragged about how he fought the law and Bruce won. In fact, the law won.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Defamation 2 Comments on Justice Michael Lee says ‘real credit issues’ in Lehrmann defamation trial
It’s the saga about an alleged rape that never ends.
After a jury in a criminal rape trial was aborted after juror misconduct, the subsequent inquiry which revealed prosecutorial misconduct and the resignation of the ACT Director of Prosecutions, we have the sequel to the rape trial.
That sequel is a civil defamation case by Bruce Lehrmann, who was the defendant in the rape trial, brought against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson for an episode on The Project about the alleged rape.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Defamation 2 Comments on Ben Roberts-Smith appeals defamation defeat
Highly decorated former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG sued on 16 media stories that collectively alleged among other things that he had murdered civilians in Afghanistan and committed an act of domestic violence against a woman in the Federal Court of Australia.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Defamation 3 Comments on Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation case on contextual truth
Highly decorated former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG was the subject of 16 media stories that collectively alleged among other things that he had murdered civilians in Afghanistan and committed an act of domestic violence against a woman.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law, Defamation, Legal profession 7 Comments on Debacle after Bruce Lehrmann charges dropped
Bruce Lehrmann, the former parliamentary political staffer who was accused of raping a colleague named Brittany Higgins at Parliament House has had all charges dropped again him.
This occurred after the trial had to be postponed because Lisa Wilkinson gave a speech at The Logie Awards, and when the trial finally took place, the jury had to be discharged because of juror misconduct.
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Author adminPosted on Categories civil litigation, Defamation 1 Comment on Christian Porter loses appeal from restraint on Sue Chrysanthou SC
Former Attorney General Christian Porter has lost his appeal of a restraint against Defamation specialist Sue Chrysanthou SC representing him in his claim against the ABC.
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