Category / Privacy / Publication
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Cronulla’s legal advice on ASADA kept confidential: Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby League Football Club Ltd v Nationwide News Pty Ltd [2013] NSWSC 494
The biggest news in Australian sport this year has been the investigation by the Australian Crime Commission and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) into the alleged use by athletes and members…
June 24, 2013 -
No tort for breach of privacy in South Australian epic: Sands v South Australia [2013] SASC 44
In a trial that ran for 55 days late last year and concluding in February this year, the plaintiff, Derick John Sands, has lost his claim for defamation, as well as other…
April 18, 2013 -
Google Australia not a publisher: Rana v Google Australia Pty Ltd [2013] FCA 60
In asserting that it is not a publisher of its search engine results, Google has at last had a win, of sorts, in the Federal Court. But the win was not as…
March 28, 2013 -
Google wins but loses again, now in UK: Tamiz v Google Inc [2013] EWCA Civ 68
Payam Tamiz, an English Conservative politician who had been running for the local elections in Thanet, sued Google for anonymous comments on a blog that was created on Google’s blogger platform, “London…
February 28, 2013 -
Google wins ACCC battle in High Court, but has it lost the defamation war?: Google Inc v ACCC [2013] HCA 1
In 2012, the Full Court of the Federal Court held that Google engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct, in breach of s.52 of the Trade Practices Act because if a person searched…
February 19, 2013 -
$200,000: Trkulja’s Second Big Win to Send Google into a Frenzy: Trkulja v Google Inc [2012] VSC [2012] VSC 533
In Silicon Valley, Google’s legal representatives will now be acquainting themselves with Australian defamation law and grimacing a lot, as for what seems to be the first time, a common law court…
November 12, 2012 -
One Small Step for Mr Trkulja, One Giant Leap for GoogleKind: Trkulja v Google Inc [2012] VSC
In February this year, Milorad Trkulja, a Melbourne Music Promoter sued Yahoo!. What had happened was that if a person searched his name on Yahoo!, the results contained links to an article…
November 2, 2012 -
Solicitors’ defamation law argument fails: David v Abdishou [2012] NSWCA 109
The appellants (who were the plaintiffs at the trial) were solicitors who acted for Karl Suleman. In 2000 and 2001, Suleman induced many members of the Assyrian community in Sydney to invest…
June 8, 2012 -
Black is Back in Ontario: Breeden v Black [2012] SCC 19
The term “libel tourist” is a term bandied about by defamation defendants to suggest some sort of impropriety by a defamation plaintiff. The point that publishers seem to make is this: where…
May 8, 2012 -
Google liable for its misleading search results: ACCC v Google Inc [2012] FCAFC 49
In terms of defamation, there hasn’t been a case in Australia that considers whether Google Inc in America is a publisher of indexed search results from its search engine. In England, a…
April 26, 2012