A pro-Israeli lobby has asked the federal court to introduce a group of age and Fairfax media editors, journalists and lawyers to conduct temp-view lawsuits and alleged that the newspaper violated a judge's restraining order in Antoinette Lattouf's illegal termination case.
Justice Darryl Rangiah approved a restraining order in the illegal termination case in February to protect the identity and contact information of Israeli individuals who contacted the ABC and filed a complaint about Lattouf's employment.
Ratov signed a five-day leisure contract in December 2023 for three days after posting information about the Israeli war in Gaza on social media. In June 2024, the Fair Work Commission found out she was fired and she filed an illegal firing case in federal court. Rangiah's judgment has not been lowered yet.
The court heard in the case that ABC Chairman Ita Buttrose was frustrated that her goal was the complainant’s goal, and she repeatedly asked then-Managing Director David Anderson why Lattouf is still on the air.
On the seventh day of the hearing, Rangiah reminded the parties about his suppression order, asking any media that might have published the names of those who complained about Lattouf to comply with the order.
"I issued a restraining order last Monday. Attorneys acting for applicants seeking restraining orders have written to the court, asserting that specific media organizations have published articles that disclose the identity of persons protected by the restraining orders," he said.
At a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, Sue Chrysanthou SC, who operated for the pro-Israel group, expressed her frustration with her age and Fairfax’s response to her legal letters and asked for a referral under Federal Court Rule 42.16 to consider whether a lawsuit should be filed.
Editors of the era and the Sydney Morning Herald, Patrick Elligert and Bevin Shields, and two journalists of age are eight people named in the application.
"Sadly, from my client's perspective, we have no choice but to bring this application, including a senior attorney against Fairfax, a senior attorney at Fairfax, who did not respond to more than half of the (a) twelve letters and honors on the bench."
Chrysanthou said respondents accused her clients of making an annoying application and denied business violations and contempt.
Rangiah asked what is the nature of chrysanthou being despised, “The so-called despised is the conduct of journalists, their supervisory editors and their employers, corporate entities and their lawyers, we correspond to us six times and received no response.”
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Tom Blackburn SC, who acted for the respondents, said that because contempt was a criminal charge, it was a "very serious charge" against lawyers because they were court officials and he was not elaborated.
Among the reporters mentioned in the application, Blackburn said it was unclear that they “have the power or authority to publish or prevent publications from being deleted.”
Judge Rangiah ordered Chrysanthou to provide written details of the alleged charges, including which parts of this article disclose prohibited information "and on which basis you say each alleged competitor is responsible for such publications or disclosures".
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