Category / Damages / Honest opinion / Qualified privilege / Qualified privilege / Reciprocal duty-interest / Trial
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Estate agent wins damages against Alice Spring News: Forrest v Chlanda & Anor [2012] NTSC 14
The plaintiff was a real estate agent in Alice Springs who operated under the name First National Real Estate Framptons. He was also the Southern regional representative of the Real Estate…
April 13, 2012 -
Cairns belts match-fixing claim out of the ground: Cairns v Modi [2012] EWHC 756 (QB)
In 1983 I remember going to the MCG with my father and watching a swashbuckling New Zealand batsman, Lance Cairns, belt 6 sixes all around the biggest ground in the world, off…
March 29, 2012 -
Music promoter wins $225,000: Trkulja v Yahoo! Inc LLC & Yahoo! 7 Pty Ltd [2012] VSC 88
Michael Trkulja was born in Yugoslavia in 1950. He migrated to Australia at 20 and in the early 1970s, while working in a travel agency business, began promoting singers and entertainers in…
March 22, 2012 -
Chatroom defamation: Don’t defend and down $30,000: Leech v Green & Gold Energy Pty Ltd [2011] NSWSC 999
The plaintiff asserted he was defamed on a blog, the defendant did not appear at Court and judgment was entered in default. On assessment of the damages, which was still done unopposed,…
October 20, 2011
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