Breaking: A court has dismissed a cosmetic surgeon's second attempt to view drafts of an investigation by award-winning journalist Adele Ferguson | gmitch_news
Dr Joseph Ajaka, the founder of Cosmos Clinic, sued the media outlets in the NSW Supreme Court last month seeking for his lawyers to inspect the draft stories because he believed they may defame him or constitute an injurious falsehood.
On Thursday, Justice Stephen Rothman dismissed the second application and ordered Ajaka to pay the media organisations’ costs. Matt Collins, QC, appearing for the media, had argued on Wednesday that ordering his clients to hand over the drafts would place the court into a quasi-editorial role and lead to the subjects of stories routinely bringing court action before publication.