Google has asked the High Court of Australia to overturn a 2020 ruling it warns could have a “devastating” effect on the wider internet. In a filing the search giant made on Friday, Google claims it ...

Judgment rules ‘a hyperlink is merely a tool’ in case between search engine and Melbourne lawyer George Defteros Australia’s highest court has ruled Google is not a publisher of the websites it links ...

Back in February, I wrote about some remarkable twists and turns in Australian media law, which is weirdly where much of the Western world has been looking for ideas lately. One of those was ...

The landmark judgment related to claims by Melbourne criminal lawyer George Defteros, who was seeking damages from the US tech giant over an article published by The Age in 2004. A panel of High Court ...

Google has prevailed in its long-running battle over potentially defamatory web links. Australia's High Court has ruled Google wasn't the publisher of a link to a 2004 story in The Age that allegedly ...

Charges against former Melbourne lawyer George Defteros of conspiracy to incite murder have been dropped, forcing police to again defend the strength of their anti-gangland taskforce. Mr Defteros had ...

Lawyer argues search engine’s publication of a 2004 article about his arrest on conspiracy to murder charges – later dropped – defamed him A Victorian lawyer who made a name for himself representing ...

The High Court’s decision in Google v Defteros on Wednesday definitively answers one question: search engines cannot be liable for defamation merely for publishing search results. The search result in ...