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The Supreme Court of Victoria has added to the growing jurisprudence regarding search engines and liability for third-party publications, including when sharing hyperlinks to that content, awarding criminal law solicitor George Defteros $40,000 in damages for defamation.
This is the second of two articles recapping two key concepts of contract law which may be relevant in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: the force majeure clause, and the common law doctrine of frustration.
This is the first of two articles recapping two key concepts of contract law which may be relevant in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: the force majeure clause, and the common law doctrine of frustration.
The Wagner brothers, who sued the publishers of a 60 Minutes broadcast regarding the 2011 Grantham floods, have been awarded considerable damages, including aggravated damages. The judgment reminds publishers of the importance of appropriate pre-publication steps.
A recent failure by respondents in a defamation action to plead imputations of reasonable grounds for suspicion as permissible variants of the applicant’s imputations of guilt has clarified the correct approach to gradations of meaning in Australia.