Saturday, February 18, 2012
Timoci Vula
SUVA (The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): Ordinary citizens have to be mindful of the Media Decree and the Public Order Amendment Decree when they make any opposing statement...
Friday, February 10, 2012
RAROTONGA (Pacific Freedom Forum / Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's journalists have been warned to steer clear of the latest media-related decree and stick to ethical standards to guide their...
Thursday, February 9, 2012
SUVA (Fiji Sun / Pacific Media Watch): President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau yesterday approved the State Proceedings (Amendment) Decree 2012, which offers legal immunity to the media when reporting...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
PORT MORESBY (The National / Pacific Media Watch): The Rimbunan Hijau (PNG) Group is suing the Post-Courier for defamation over the Pomio land situation which involves one of its subsidiaries...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Amelia Wade AUCKLAND (New Zealand Herald / Pacific Media Watch): French media are claiming a New Zealand media conspiracy is trying to ruin the reputation of their rugby team.
Monday, August 29, 2011
PORT MORESBY (PNG Post-Courier/Pacific Media Watch): Southern Highlands Governor Anderson Agiru has given notice that he is suing The National newspaper in Papua New Guinea and his former...
Friday, June 17, 2011
APIA (Samoa Observer/Pacific Media Watch): An election candidate is suing Apia Broadcasting Limited (ABL) for $270,000.
Tuala Iosefo Ponifasio’s lawsuit names the ABL-run TV3 network...
Thursday, June 16, 2011
PORT VILA: (Radio New Zealand International/Pacific Media Watch): The Public Prosecutor of Vanuatu is considering defamation action against the publisher of a newspaper .
Daily Post publisher...
Monday, May 16, 2011
Alex Perrottet: AUCKLAND: Leading Pacific journalists and academics have condemned a popular anonymous Fiji blog for an "outlandish” smear campaign against them.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
NUKU'ALOFA: Police Magistrate Salesi Mafi has sentenced all three accused in the case against the Kele’a to a fine of T$14,275. But this amount could stretch to $200,000 if 16 other...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
JAKARTA: Two Australian newspapers are being sued for publishing articles based on leaked US cables that allege President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a number of state officials had misused their...
Monday, February 7, 2011
MELBOURNE: A Tonga cabinet minister taking a newspaper to court has sparked calls for better handling of complaints about the media.
Tonga's Public Enterprises Minister Clive Edwards is...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
NUKU'ALOFA: Tonga's Minister of Public Enterprises and Revenue Clive Edwards has filed a civil lawsuit against the Kele’a newspaper alleging defamation.
Police prosecutor Mema Latu...
Friday, December 17, 2010
AUCKLAND: New Zealand’s longest-running Korean-language newspaper has folded after an 18-year run, following a High Court order to pay $250,000 in defamation damages to a prominent Korean...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
SYDNEY: Editors rarely sue for defamation in the modern era, for many good reasons. Of course, all citizens have the right to defend their reputations in the courtroom.
The reality is that any...
