Racing NSW boss Peter V landys has lost his defamation case against the ABC over a report showing graphic footage of retired racehorses being slaughtered at a Queensland abattoir.
While the 7.30 program dubbed The Final Race did not portray the CEO in a positive light, it did not defame him, Justice Michael Wigney said on Friday.
Mr V landys sued the broadcaster and journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna over the October 2019 program which included the confronting footage from the Meramis abattoir, north of Brisbane.
Racing NSW boss Peter V landys has lost his defamation case against the ABC over a report showing graphic footage of retired racehorses being slaughtered at a Queensland abattoir
Should judges decide if they are biased?
A curiosity of the legal system is that the person being accused of bias gets to make a ruling about whether they are or not. Moves for change are afoot.
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Should judges be able to decide whether they are biased against a litigant? Not on your nelly, according to a review ordered by the federal government into judicial bias.
It’s one of the curiosities of the legal system that the person who is being accused of bias gets to make a ruling about whether they are or not.
It’s not that judges don’t go by the maxim that justice must not only be done but also be seen to be done. In fact, they set a pretty high bar when it comes to such perceptions.
John Hewson, Nine settle defamation suit over A Current Affair broadcast
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Former federal Liberal leader John Hewson and Nine have settled a defamation lawsuit over a broadcast of
A Current Affair, dispensing with the need for a four-day trial that was slated to start on Monday.
Dr Hewson filed Federal Court defamation proceedings against Nine, the publisher of this masthead, in June last year over a May 18 broadcast relating to GSA Insurance Brokers, a company he chaired. He is now an adviser to the board.
Judge to probe confidential JPMorgan cartel case documents
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The gears started moving last week in the competition regulatorâs titanic criminal cartel case when a judge in Adelaide ordered that so-far confidential, unredacted copies of five-year-old statements by JPMorgan executives be handed to him on Monday.
These statements were taken from JPMorgan managers, traders and executives shortly after a now-infamous $2.5 billion ANZ capital raising in August 2015 that fell short, leaving $800 million of shares in the hands of the underwriters: JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup.
The trial judge, Justice Michael Wigney, has brought pressure on all parties to get the show on the road given that so many years have gone by with the defendants left in limbo. Â
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