Posts Tagged ‘defamation’
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the tort of invasion of privacy
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about the question of whether Australia is moving towards a tort of ‘invasion of privacy’ as a result of the publication of compromising pictures supposedly of Pauline Hanson. There is a…
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the strange case of harry nicolaides
This is disgraceful: a Melbourne man, Harry Nicolaides, has been jailed in Thailand for three years for insulting the Thai royal family in a novel he has apparently written. The conviction is a result of Thailand’s anachronistic…
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on-line defamation decision, eh
A Canadian court has recently handed down what seems like an eminently sensible judgment concerning defamation on the Internet: story/judgment. In essence, the decision means that (for Canadian purposes) linking to a defamatory web page does not itself…