Australian Capital Territory SLAPPs
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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]
- November 1997: the National Association of Forest Industries warned the television station, Ten Capital, that it would commence legal action if it didn't withdraw a Community Service Announcement by The Wilderness Society.
Other SourceWatch resources
External links
- Ian Warden, "Zoo Threatens Legal Action over Protesters' Accusations" Canberra Times, 28 April 2003. p2.