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  E LAW | Defamation on the Internet: Joseph Gutnick v Dow Jones - Text
Gutnick decided to sue Dow only in relation to that part of the article which portrayed him as Goldberg’s abettor.
And, since Gutnick objected to the publication of the disputed material only in Victoria, the Supreme Court of that State was a competent authority to examine the controversy.
Gutnick may reinforce the perception among publishers that to avoid expensive litigation, it is necessary — as Guernsey puts it — “to install online gates and checkpoints around their sites, giving access to only certain viewers”.
www.murdoch.edu.au /elaw/issues/v11n3/beyer113_text.html   (2851 words)

  
  Gutnick v. Dow Jones - Wikipedia
In order to obtain leave to proceed against an overseas defendant, a plaintiff must subsequently demonstrate that the process makes claims of a kind that are supported by the applicable court rules, unless the defendant does not submit to the jurisdiction by filing an unconditional appearance[?].
Nevertheless, in the Gutnick case, the clearly inappropriate forum-test was reaffirmed and, consequently, it will probably not be departed from in the near future.
Gutnick dealt with civil rather than criminal penalties, and more to the point cannot be seen as a valid indication of how the courts in 190 other nations will decide similar disputes.
wikipedia.findthelinks.com /gu/Gutnick_v._Dow_Jones.html   (1537 words)

  
 Joseph Gutnick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Gutnick (sometimes referred to as Diamond Joe) is an Australian businessman and a well known Jewish philanthropist.
He is well known for his leadership of Western Mining Corporation and other resource and mining businesses.
According to Gutnick, it was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who pointed out to him the precise geological points on a map of Australia to commence mining for gold.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Gutnick   (193 words)

  
 The Review - Editorial
Joseph Gutnick offered the residents of Hebron reassurance at a time of unprecedented tension and potential disaster.
Gutnick's presence and influence with the settlers at a crucial time, undermined the groundswell of opposition, lancing the potentially explosive resentment building towards the Government.
They didn't necessarily like nor approve of the agreement, but as Gutnick argues, "we made a decision that this was the reality; it was important to accept that and move on".
www.aijac.org.au /review/1997/222/ed222.html   (1635 words)

  
 Sermon
Joseph Gutnick is a mining magnate who saved the Melbourne Football Club from virtual extinction back in 1996, by pouring in millions of dollars of his own money and giving its whole administration a shake-up by becoming president.
But Joseph Gutnick was confident in his choice as he explained on page 3 of Wednesday's Australian, 'God has a diamond in his treasure house and its name is Sabbat.' For Gutnick the teaching of his faith as expressed in the Sabbat is even more precious than the gold he mines...it is like diamond.
Joseph Gutnick is mocked (at a safe distance) as a narrow bound law-keeper, but perhaps he has seen the diamond lying within what his faith asks of him each Saturday and he's not prepared to give it up for something that is only bronze by comparison.
www.adam.com.au /stmarymag/sermons/pent120.htm   (1247 words)

  
 NSW Society for Computers and the Law: Journal: December 2001: Defamation on the internet - Gutnick v Dow Jones
Joseph Gutnick was therefore granted the right to sue Dow Jones under Victorian Law.
Gutnick claimed that the article stated that he was the biggest customer of convicted money-launderer and tax evader, Nachum Goldberg.
Gutnick asserted that Dow Jones caused the article to be published in Victoria via the internet in permanent article form making it available to Victorian internet users, including brokers and financial advisers, who did or could have, obtained access to the article.
www.nswscl.org.au /journal/46/Khuth.html   (1232 words)

  
 The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
Feldman, who is married to Gutnick’s older sister Peninah, refused, charging that the $5 million had been a donation, not a loan.
Joseph’s father, Chaim, was rabbi for many years at Elwood Synagogue, one of the oldest shuls in Melbourne.
Speaking to The Journal from Australia, Joseph Gutnick confirmed that a deposit had been put on the properties and that Cunin was a friend of his brother-in-law, but said he knew nothing about Cunin’s involvement in the affair beyond what he read in the papers.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=11271   (762 words)

  
 Dow Jones & Co. Inc. v Gutnick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The October 28, 2000 edition of Barron's Online, published by Dow Jones, contained an article entitled "Unholy Gains" in which several references were made to the respondent, Mr Joseph Gutnick.
Geoffrey Robertson QC argued for the publisher Dow Jones, as to whether it was considered to be "published from" where it was uploaded in New Jersey or "published into" where it downloaded by suscribers in Victoria, Australia.
Seven High Court justices unanimously decided that Gutnick had the right to sue for demation at his primary residence and the place he was best known.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gutnick_v._Dow_Jones   (389 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Australian To Sue U.S. News Site -- Dec. 10, 2002
Dow Jones' lawyers had sought to relocate the Gutnick case to the U.S., saying the plaintiff could seek damages if he made the defamation claim where the allegedly libelous publication was made.
Gutnick's lawyer, Jeffrey Sher, said the article's allegations were untrue and the facts were incorrect.
Gutnick, who pushed to have the case heard in his home town of Melbourne, where he said people read and were influenced by the Barron's article, said he was pleased with the High Court's decision.
www.pbs.org /newshour/media/media_watch/july-dec02/australia_12-10.html   (665 words)

  
 Asia Times: Oceania
Gutnick launched legal action in the Victoria Supreme Court for defamation on the grounds that the article damaged his standing especially in the eyes of key financial investors in the Australian state of Victoria.
Gutnick argued that it was published where 300 paying Victoria subscribers to Barron's downloaded it and therefore the case should be heard in Victoria.
Gutnick's lawyers told the High Court at a day-long appeal on Tuesday that they reject the argument that the decision will have an effect on free speech.
www.atimes.com /oceania/DE30Ah02.html   (862 words)

  
 Roger Clarke's Gutnick Case
Joseph Gutnick sued Dow Jones in relation to statements made by Dow Jones in the web version of its publication Barron's Digest.
The crux of the Gutnick position is that the basis for determining whether a case in defamation can be heard has been whether the material was comprehended by someone who was in that jurisdiction at the time they comprehended it.
The Gutnick response concluded with the remarkable pleading that, even if it were not currently possible to prevent download in particular places, then the law should be left unchanged, in the expectation that technological change will occur in the future, which will enable such discrimination to be made.
www.anu.edu.au /people/Roger.Clarke/II/Gutnick.html   (2853 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Mr Gutnick's sister, Pnina Feldman, the founder of the diamond exploration company Diamond Rose, and her husband, Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, had sought to have the matter heard in a Jewish religious court.
The dispute stemmed from a $5million loan Mr Gutnick gave the school in 1994 at a time when it owed the Commonwealth Bank $24 million and was at risk of closure, both parties to the case said.
Investors were tantalised by tales in the prospectus of her search for the 12 gemstones from the breastplate worn by the high priest in the Jerusalem temple more than 3000 years ago.
www.jewishtribalreview.org /gutnick.htm   (986 words)

  
 Oh, Brother - www.smh.com.au
All six Gutnick siblings sat together at the burial ceremony at the Chevra Kadisha in the Melbourne suburb of Springvale.
Presumably Gutnick was in great need of funds last year when he borrowed $200,000 from Feldman at the height of the feud.
With the market for explorers looking up, the fight over Gutnick's loan to the Yeshiva decided by the court (it ordered that Gutnick be repaid the principal plus interest) and sibling relations in the process of being mended, both claim to have learnt from the past.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/07/1068013391840.html   (2831 words)

  
 Publish at your peril - smh.com.au
High-profile businessman Joseph Gutnick was able to do something, but even those with considerable financial resources can run into trouble.
It is clear that the issue was not resolved by the Gutnick case, in which the court ruled that publication, and therefore jurisdiction, was where the article was downloaded by a reader.
Businessman Joseph Gutnick claimed to have been defamed on the Barron's US website, which published a story in October 2000, entitled Unholy Gains, alleging he was the "biggest customer" of a convicted tax evader and money launderer, Nachum Goldberg.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/24/1045935329522.html   (1333 words)

  
 [Ecommerce] Gutnick defamation case
http://it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/2001/06/06/FFX2G9FZLNC.html Gutnick court case hears publication a centuries old question Wednesday 06 June, 2001 10:35 GMT+10:00 By MIKE HEDGE, AAP A 19th century law suit involving a British nobleman, his servant and a London newspaper was cited yesterday as a precedent in a landmark case on Internet publishing.
Gutnick is claiming that the article's appearance on the Internet enabled it to be accessed by people in Victoria, thereby defaming him where he is best known.
Gutnick's counsel, Jeffrey Sher, QC, said the detailing of claims made in the Dow Jones article should not have been made in the press.
lists.essential.org /pipermail/ecommerce/2001q2/000503.html   (544 words)

  
 Welcome to Shmais News Service
Gutnick - mining magnate, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Special Emissary for the Integrity of the Land of Israel and the president of the Melbourne Football Club - is in the Holy City and on the campaign trail.
Gutnick's campaign in 1996 - widely seen to have been decisive in Netanyahu's election - came under close scrutiny from Israeli authorities, with claims of improper funding.
But while he strongly supports Sharon, Gutnick listens to those right-wingers who think that the former defence minister, who oversaw the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and whom an Israeli inquiry held partly responsible for the slaughter of Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps, is not hardline enough.
www.shmais.com /pages.cfm?page=chabaddetail&ID=70   (815 words)

  
 j. - Religious expulsion turns ugly   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gutnick's loan was matched by Sydney businessman Richard Scheinberg, and the bank accepted their $6.5 million as full payment, writing off the remainder.
Gutnick had originally suggested that the matter be heard by a rabbinical court in Australia.
Last week, Gutnick and Feldman continued their court battle, with Gutnick claiming that the Tel Aviv excommunication order was in contempt of the Sydney court.
www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/20764/edition_id/426/format/html/displaystory.html   (384 words)

  
 Ad IDEM: Cases
Joseph Gutnick sought to bring a defamation claim against U.S.-based company Dow Jones for an article appearing on the company's internet publication of Barron's.
Gutnick sought to bring the claim under Australian law, given that he lives in Victoria, Australia and he viewed the article there.
Gutnick in Victoria, on the common law principle that defamation takes place where the damage to reputation occurs.
www.adidem.org /case/dowjones_021210.shtml   (310 words)

  
 Gutnicks dig in again | The Courier-Mail   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And Mordechai Gutnick, or Mordi as he is known, is determined to emulate some of his father's earlier success from his seat on the company boards.
The Gutnicks also have gold targets near Newmont's giant Callie gold mine in the Northern Territory (under the Quantum umbrella) and diamond targets next to the Argyle and Kimberley diamond mines in Western Australia's north (through Astro Diamond Mines).
Joseph Gutnick's son Mordechai is robustly carrying on the family tradition.
www.thecouriermail.news.com.au /story/0,20797,19073975-3122,00.html   (1014 words)

  
 Australian Court in Landmark Internet Ruling - Global Policy Forum - Globalization
Gutnick claimed a 7,000-word article that had appeared in the online version of Barron's defamed him by portraying him as a schemer given to stock scams, money laundering and fraud.
Dow Jones lawyers had argued that allowing Gutnick to sue in Australia would make anything published on the internet subject to legal action in scores of nations and have a significant impact on freedom of speech.
Mr Gutnick said the case should be heard in his home town, Melbourne, since people there were able to access the internet to read the article - thereby defaming him where he is best known.
www.globalpolicy.org /globaliz/law/intllaw/1210slander.htm   (606 words)

  
 From the Jewish Diaspora
In an interview with Gutnick by Dan Goldberg and Victor Kleerkoper, (Australian Jewish News Jan.22) he said that he would support whoever the Likud chooses as its candidate for Israel's Prime Minister in the May election.
They chose Netanyahu as their leader, which means that the Gutnick influence will again be directed to a man who lacks any credibility, to put it mildly, in the eyes of his colleagues, the Knesset, world opinion and even Rabbi Gutnick himself, who is quoted as saying he is "disappointed" with his performance.
When pressed on such claims, Gutnick confirmed that the facts were correct, but the alleged political bribery attributed to his good relations with Mr.
www.ariga.com /peacewatch/jdiaspora.htm   (2038 words)

  
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Joseph Gutnick is one of Australia's leading mining entrepreneurs.
Joseph Gutnick headed the team that was responsible for thediscovery and development of several successful world-class mines inAustralia, namely the Bronzewing and Jundee gold mines, and the Cawse lateritenickel project.
Gutnick is also Chairman of Baynet Ltd. (OTC BB: BAYU).Baynet is developing a neutral Portal that will specifically cater tocompanies operating in the global mineral exploration, extraction andprocessing industry.
www.tahera.com /News/PressReleases/2000/MillionGutnickFinancingFinalizedByTaheraCorporation/default.aspx   (607 words)

  
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Being therefore of the opinion that the defamation of which Mr Gutnick complained had occurred in Victoria, Hedigan J concluded that Victoria was not a clearly inappropriate forum for trial of the proceeding and dismissed Dow Jones's application.
Mr Gutnick's proceeding was brought in respect of damage alleged to have been suffered at least partly in Victoria and alleged to have been caused by a tortious act or omission.
As has been noted earlier, Mr Gutnick has sought to confine his claim in the Supreme Court of Victoria to the damage he alleges was caused to his reputation in Victoria as a consequence of the publication that occurred in that State.
www.utexas.edu /law/faculty/ecommerce/2nd/assignments/1/dowjones.doc   (17931 words)

  
 Radio Islam: Multimillionaire Australian Rabbi nicknamed Diamond Joe
The plaintiff, Mr Joseph Gutnick, is one of the multi-millionaire businessman who had a prominant role in lobbying Australian governments (past and present) to prevent my obtaining an entry visa to lecture.
Gutnick's influence on Prime Minister John Howard was exposed during last year's federal election, when a letter from Gutnick to Howard was leaked to the media.
Mr Gutnick said after yesterday's verdict that the case had been a David and Goliath battle against "all the strongest media in the world".
www.abbc2.com /islam/english/jewishp/australia/diamondjoe.htm   (1071 words)

  
 Gutnick and ex-friend settle - National - www.theage.com.au
A Melbourne magistrate expressed renewed faith in the human race yesterday after millionaire Melbourne businessman Joseph Gutnick and a long-time friend-turned-enemy settled a bitter court dispute.
Mr Mochkin was accused of calling Mr Gutnick a lowlife, despicable and a "destroyer of Jewish institutions".
Mr Gutnick denied that he had once called Mr Mochkin a "moiser", the Yiddish term for an informer, and told him that "you know I could kill you".
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/07/13/1089694355677.html   (455 words)

  
 Jewish Review: Australian shul leaders evicted   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The eviction came after a court ruled that the millions of dollars that diamond magnate Rabbi Joseph Gutnick gave Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Gutnick's brother-in-law and the head of the Sydney Yeshiva, was a loan that had to be repaid, not a gift.
In 1994, Gutnick lent the Sydney Yeshiva $3 million toward settling a debt of almost $16 million to the Commonwealth Bank.
Feldman responded by appealing to a rabbinical court in Tel Aviv, which excommunicated Gutnick on the grounds that he took his action to a secular court rather than a religious one.
www.jewishreview.org /Archives/Article.php?Article=2003-09-01-1509   (427 words)

  
 Law.com
Gutnick, who lives in Victoria, Australia, filed suit in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
The court found that since the damage to Gutnick's reputation occurred in Victoria where Dow Jones' article was downloaded and read, it was appropriate for Gutnick to seek tort damages there.
While the company expressed disappointment in the court's decision, it said it was encouraged by a number of the judges' comments in the ruling.
www.law.com /jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1039054429946   (645 words)

  
 Shmais.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Naphtali noted that Rabbi Gutnick had been invited by the then chief chaplain of the IDF, Rabbi Shlomo Goren (who later became chief rabbi), to become chaplain of Israel's Air Force in the 1960s, but then prime minister David Ben-Gurion had intervened because he felt Rabbi Gutnick's leadership was more important in Australia.
It is believed that Rabbi Gutnick was deeply distressed about the feud between his son, Rabbi Joseph Gutnick, and his daughter, Pnina Feldman (and her husband Pinchus), who were locked in a legal battle in the NSW Supreme Court earlier this year.
Rabbi Gutnick's first wife, Rose, was killed when a car hit her as she was crossing a street in America in 1992.
www.shmais.com /chabaddetail.cfm?ID=590   (1057 words)

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