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==Legal Threats==
 
==Legal Threats==
2003: Canberra Zoo: Letter threatening Animal Liberation with defamation if a protest went ahead.[http://users.senet.com.au/~gregogle/AL_Canberra.html]
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*2003: Canberra Zoo: Letter threatening Animal Liberation with defamation if a protest went ahead.[http://users.senet.com.au/~gregogle/AL_Canberra.html]
 
*1997: Head of the government owned utility, ACTEW, threatened Greens MP Kerrie Tucker over statements made about ACTEW possibly being in breach of legislation over a coal powered electricity deal.[http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/HANSARD/1997/week08/2642.htm]
 
*1997: Head of the government owned utility, ACTEW, threatened Greens MP Kerrie Tucker over statements made about ACTEW possibly being in breach of legislation over a coal powered electricity deal.[http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/HANSARD/1997/week08/2642.htm]
  

Revision as of 02:48, 26 July 2006

This page is part of a list of Australian SLAPP suits and threatened law suits. It contains the references to SLAPPs in the Australian Capital Territory (or cases in the ACT Division of the Federal Court). The full details of the list and the definitions used is at SLAPP's in Australia.

Cases

Legal Threats

  • 2003: Canberra Zoo: Letter threatening Animal Liberation with defamation if a protest went ahead.[1]
  • 1997: Head of the government owned utility, ACTEW, threatened Greens MP Kerrie Tucker over statements made about ACTEW possibly being in breach of legislation over a coal powered electricity deal.[2]

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