Federal court orders account details be given to Nurul Khan so he can sue the person for defamation
Google has been ordered to hand over the account information and IP address of a person who a Victorian Labor candidate alleges defamed them in an email.in last year’s state election, but an email littered with allegations against him was sent to ministers and news organisations on 9 November.
He was subsequently disendorsed as an upper house candidate for the Western Metropolitan region before the 26 November poll.to the federal court, seeking to find out the identity of the anonymous sender so he can sue that person for defamation. His barrister, Justin Castelan, described the contents of the email as “absolutely defamatory”, reading out a number of the sender’s claims to the court on Tuesday.Castelan sought to have Google hand over the sender’s user account information and IP address.
Representatives for Google did not appear at the federal court in Melbourne on Tuesday, instead sending through a proposed order. Justice Catherine Button ordered the tech giant to provide the subscriber registration information from the Google account, as well as the email address’s IP logins on and around 9 November.
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