Chinese-Australian businessman Chau Chak Wing has been awarded $590,000 in defamation proceedings he brought against the ABC’s Four Corners program.
https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/chau-chak-wing-awarded-590-000-in-defamation-case-20210202-p56yna
Guy Babcock vividly remembers the chilly Saturday evening when he discovered the stain on his family. It was September 2018. He, his wife and their young son had just returned to their home in Beckley, an English village outside of Oxford. Mr. Babcock still had his coat on when he got a frantic call from his father.
“I don’t want to upset you, but there is some bad stuff on the internet,” Mr. Babcock recalled his father saying. Someone, somewhere, had written terrible things online about Guy Babcock and his brother, and members of their 86-year-old father’s social club had alerted him.
Mr. Babcock, a software engineer, got off the phone and Googled himself. The results were full of posts on strange sites accusing him of being a thief, a fraudster and a pedophile. The posts listed Mr. Babcock’s contact details and employer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-google-results.html?smid=em-share
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A fresh legal battle is brewing against Google over claims the tech giant is turning a blind eye to 'click fraud'.
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6227480537001?fbclid=IwAR1qH0MO1006pkJuMqzE-6KrNNgXOZ2IWE99F074aQjrCI3o9IhrGndaUsU
Australian small businesses are set to wage a fresh legal battle against Google, claiming the tech giant is turning a blind eye to “click fraud” because it benefits financially from it.
Melbourne lawyer Mark Stanarevic said his firm, Matrix Legal, had been approached by a number of small businesses over the past year concerned about the practice that occurs when a bot imitates a legitimate user and clicks on an ad — driving up the cost of advertising because it is based on a pay-per-click system.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/new-legal-battle-brews-against-google/news-story/f2889cdba1e23f0cfd57aeb960b73e4b 2/3
A businesswoman has been awarded $280,000 after the Federal Court found she was defamed by a “sustained campaign of offensive mockery” that amounted to bullying in a series of columns in The Australian Financial Review.
Elaine Stead, the former managing director of venture capital at the now-defunct Blue Sky Alternative Investments, sued the newspaper and Rear Window columnist Joe Aston over two columns from 2019, one of which referred to her as a “feminist cretin”.
Last year, Justice Michael Lee found the columns conveyed a total of four defamatory imputations, including that Dr Stead is a “cretin” and “rashly destroyed the capital of business ventures with which she was associated”.
Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/a-type-of-slow-death-elaine-stead-awarded-280-000-in-financial-review-defamation-case-20210127-p56x52.html
A 73-year-old man has been awarded $120,000 in damages and $85,000 in legal costs after winning a defamation battle against a fellow churchgoer over Facebook posts branding him a scammer.
In the latest in a series of Australian defamation cases involving slurs on social media, the Melbourne man launched court action over six Facebook posts between January and March 2018.
A Melbourne dentist who claims he was defamed in an anonymous online review has convinced a Federal Court judge to order technology giant Google to unmask the disgruntled customer so he can launch "groundbreaking" legal action.
Dr Matthew Kabbabe claims the review has cost him a significant amount of money
Historically, attempts to convince Google to unmask anonymous internet users have taken months because of red tape related to an international treaty
Mr Kabbabe's lawyer has convinced a judge to allow him to use a loophole that will circumvent the treaty by serving Google via registered international mail
Matthew Kabbabe said the single negative review, lodged on Google about three months ago, had had a profound impact on his teeth-whitening business and his life.
"I believe it is extremely unfair that people are allowed to anonymously attack honest, hardworking small businesses," Dr Kabbabe told the ABC.
The review in question, authored by a user called "CBsm 23", is the only one containing negative comments on Dr Kabbabe's business page. The rest of his reviews have five stars.
He has been unsuccessful in getting Google to take down the review.
His lawyer, Mark Stanarevic from Matrix Legal, described the decision by the Federal Court as "groundbreaking".
"A bad review can shut down a business these days because most people live and breathe online," Mr Stanarevic said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-14/small-business-launches-anonymous-google-review-defamation-case/11963250
According to Justice Richard White, it is likely that a substantial proportion of the documents held by the ATO will contain information that will or may be of assistance to Mr Jordan's advisers in defending the defamation proceedings.
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Read MoreAccording to the Full Court, the Channel Seven story conjured up the stereotypical image of a welfare fraudster collecting benefits under false pretenses by using false identities or pretending that they are not working - by referring to fraudsters and welfare cheats ripping off the system.
Read MoreGoogle argues that it published the material as a "subordinate distributor" and did not know, nor should have reasonably known, that the material was defamatory.
Read MoreDaniel Ibrahim alleges that the story was overly sensationalised and was meant to injure his reputation.
Read MoreJohns said in his statement that the story was ‘hurtful, humiliating and damaging’ to both himself and his family. Now, he is commencing defamation proceedings.
Read MoreThe court did not believe that the statements made by the defendant were true.
Read MoreThe hearing centered on what is the definition of a slut. However, the case did not go the distance as it was settled before a ruling was made.
Read MoreTo put it simply, Burke’s remarks are not actually damaging to Ms. Dent’s person or reputation because no ordinary person would believe them in the first place.
Read MoreThe woman sent emails to her other neighbors claiming that the man is harassing her.
Read MoreMr Oliver was portrayed as a coward who had punched a defenceless man and ruined his career.
Read MoreThe judge was not satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that the incidents actually occurred.
Read MoreSpeaking after the verdict was handed down, Mrs Mirabella said she was grateful her belief in the legal system had cleared her name.
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