No Lattouf contempt probe after Nine names lobbyists
After complaining about the views of the ABC radio server on Palestine, Nine fled from the insulting prosecution, despite the fact that he named several pro -Israeli lobbyists who suppressed their identities.
In December 2023, ABC Radio Sydney was removed from the ordinary position in ABC Radio Sydney’s Mornings after a joint E -Posta campaign, which demanded its dismissal by lobbyists by lobbyists.
In June, he won $ 70,000 for illegal termination.
When the hearing against ABC began in February, Justice Darryl Rangiah suppressed the name of nine people who complained about Lattouf.
He said he had safety fears if they were defined as open to everyone.
Later, ABC President Ita Buttrose wrote to the former general manager David Anderson that Lattouf had two days of complaints to the filling shift of the filling shift in an e-mail presented during the trial.
Nine released a series of articles in Sydney Morning Herald, and the age of the fourth of the complainants in January 2024, and did not remove names until March 2025.
The complainants then urged the Justice Rangah to direct the issue to a Federal Court registration organization that could prosecute the two publications.
The Lower case was opposed to journalists Michael Bachelard and Calum Jaspan, the editors Bevan Shields and Patrick Elligett and Nine In -Company Lawyers, Laps and Sam White.
On Friday, Justice refused to refuse to prosecute the issue.
The complainants brought a “reasonablely controversial ğı case that the nine humiliated. in his judgment.
However, nine had a controversial defense about the names of the nine complainants in the documents tendered during the hearing of Lattouf’s decision to suppress the court.
Nine argued that more than a year before the hearing started, he gave names from other materials.
When he refused to send the issue to a registration officer, he said that the judge complains could prosecute themselves if they want.
Orum I think the parties passing the intervening are the ‘most naturally placed’ to make trial for the disrespect of the court, ”he wrote.
He ordered the lobbyists to pay half of Nine’s legal costs, saying that it was “dusen and useless” that it could not respond properly to the repeated correspondence from the lawyers of the network.
However, he did not order all expenses to be paid, as Mr. White and Mrs. Alick did not have a reasonable basis for bringing humiliation.
The judge said that in -house lawyers have no control about whether the articles will be changed and there was no evidence about their legal advice.
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