16 Mar 2006
FERRIER HODGSON AND ANOR V SIEMER AND ORS HC AK CIV 2005-404-1808
- Citation
- openlaw-c988341c_c1f7_4f38_b7c7_f095a2a43457.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The Court found beyond reasonable doubt that the first defendant (and Paragon) deliberately breached the April and May injunctions by causing or acquiescing in reactivation and updating of the injuncted website, distributing stickers and circulating letters and cards referring the public and media to the site, and that the purported sale of the website was more probably a sham or in any event left the defendant able to control or cancel the publication; those deliberate breaches constituted contempt and warranted punitive fines and solicitor-and-client costs while the injunction remained in f…