Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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The concept of publication in defamation law
Published 2021Publication is an element of the tort of defamation. Increasingly, internet technologies raise difficult issues of publication. Because mass media technologies did not present doctrinal problems about the concept of ...Open AccessArticle -
Triviality, proportionality and the minimum threshold of seriousness in defamation law
Published 2019Dealing with trivial defamation claims has been of increasing concern in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. This is consistent with the need to deploy finite resources allocated to the civil administration of ...Open AccessArticle -
Irreconcilable differences? Interlocutory injunctions for defamation and privacy
Published 2012Interlocutory injunctions to restrain the publication of defamatory matter are rarely granted, as the High Court of Australia recently reaffirmed in Australian Broadcasting Corporation v O'Neill. This is one of the few ...Open AccessArticle -
No worries? Employers' duty of care for negligently inflicted stress
Published 2005In Koehler v Cerebos (Aust) Ltd, the High Court of Australia found that an employer did not owe a duty of care in negligence to an employee not to inflict a stress-related psychiatric injury on her. In reaching this ...Open AccessArticle -
A serious harm threshold for Australian defamation law
Published 2022The recent reforms to the national, uniform defamation laws introduced a new element to the plaintiff’s cause of action: serious harm to reputation. At the same time, the statutory defence of triviality was abolished. The ...Open AccessArticle