Will Marieke Hardy’s Twitter case change Australian law for ever? Twitter is being sued for defamation by a Melbourne man who was wrongly identified as the author of a “hate blog” directed at writer and TV personality, Marieke Hardy.
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ABC star Marieke Hardy settles over false hate blog claims :ABC indie personality Marieke Hardy has reportedly paid $13,000 to a man she wrongly accused of running a hate blog about her.
The out of court settlement was reached after Hardy last week published a retraction on her blog and apologised to Melbourne man Joshua Meggitt after making posts and Tweets claiming he had authored a hate blog about her, reported The Age
**************************************************** A New Zealand cricketer has been awarded £90,000 in damages by the
High Court after suing for libel over a defamatory tweet, in what is
thought to be the first Twitter libel trial heard in England.Chris Cairns, who won 62 Test caps for his country and represented New Zealand on 267 occasions, sued Lalit Modi, the former chairman and commissioner of the Indian Premier League, over an accusation of match-fixing Mr Modi made on the microblogging service.
more at ft.com
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A little over a year ago, Courtney Love made history by becoming the first person to be sued
regarding comments she made on Twitter when designer Dawn Simorangkir
complained the singer depicted her as a thieving, drug-addled prostitute
with violent tendencies on her old @CourtneyLover79 account. Last
March, Love paid Simorangkir a $430,000 settlement, which, on top of
lawyers' fees, is not chump change.more at spin.com
