The Age and the Herald have won the libel case of the century. These were always stories that deserved to be told. It should not have required one of the most expensive trials in the nation’s history to establish that.
News Corp co-chair Lachlan Murdoch’s decision to sue Crikey over an article is just as bizarre as the small publisher choosing to effectively goad him into doing so.
The High Court has delivered a ruling that should alarm not only media outlets but every user of social media - because its effect is to make all of them the publishers of anyone’s comments to their posts.
Starting Monday,this trial is the biggest defamation action in living memory.