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After a week of not turning on, my laptop turns on again. Most suspicious.
I come by these quotes by the usual nerd route, looking up the full judgment online. Several of the best have already been publicised in the media, and I note the verdict has also given us the great social boon of Making Bettina Arndt and her weird little friends look more foolish than usual. We are in, one hopes, a glorious season for Australian defamation law.
I'm not quite sure what to call the current zeitgeist for the Seven News Network, but the unfortunate Benjamin Cohen is suing them for defamation, after they publicised and gave credence to utterly unfounded (and antisemitic) rumours he was the Bondi stabbing perpetrator.
Onwards to Lee J's judicial humour:
( Enjoying lawyer jokes is probably a sign of malformed character )
I do not, I hasten to add, agree with all of Lee's reasoning - some of the findings of his findings re Higgins seem to me to be against my understanding of everyday experience (although I, cynically, do think the person on the Belconnen omnibus would be more likely to agree with his Honour).
The findings about the unreasonable conduct of Network Ten are scathing, and will no doubt be filed in proceedings where Linda Reynolds is suing Higgins in WA. So the moveable feast of Defo Day will come around again in no time.
I come by these quotes by the usual nerd route, looking up the full judgment online. Several of the best have already been publicised in the media, and I note the verdict has also given us the great social boon of Making Bettina Arndt and her weird little friends look more foolish than usual. We are in, one hopes, a glorious season for Australian defamation law.
I'm not quite sure what to call the current zeitgeist for the Seven News Network, but the unfortunate Benjamin Cohen is suing them for defamation, after they publicised and gave credence to utterly unfounded (and antisemitic) rumours he was the Bondi stabbing perpetrator.
Onwards to Lee J's judicial humour:
( Enjoying lawyer jokes is probably a sign of malformed character )
I do not, I hasten to add, agree with all of Lee's reasoning - some of the findings of his findings re Higgins seem to me to be against my understanding of everyday experience (although I, cynically, do think the person on the Belconnen omnibus would be more likely to agree with his Honour).
The findings about the unreasonable conduct of Network Ten are scathing, and will no doubt be filed in proceedings where Linda Reynolds is suing Higgins in WA. So the moveable feast of Defo Day will come around again in no time.