Matthew Richardson SC
Matthew’s primary area of expertise is media and defamation law. He has extensive trial experience and is retained for urgent applications involving injunctive relief and suppression orders. He appears for defamation plaintiffs and defendants and gives pre-publication advice.
Matthew has also acted in defamation-related workplace disputes for corporations including the Commonwealth Bank.
Major Cases
Matthew has been appeared in actions involving both mass media and social media.
Recent matters for plaintiffs include:
- Chau v Fairfax Media Publications[2019] FCA 185, Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Chau Chak Wing [2019] FCAFC 125
- Chris Gayle v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd[2017] NSWSC 1261, Fairfax Media Publications v Gayle [2019] NSWCA 172
- Ben Roberts-Smith v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited (No 2) [2019] FCA 1626
- McLachlan v Browne (No 8)[2018] NSWSC 1968, McLachlan v Browne (No 7) [2018] NSWSC 1914
- Bolton v Stoltenberg[2018] NSWSC 1518
- Al Muderis v Duncan(No 3) [2017] NSWSC 726
Matthew has also appeared in the Supreme and District Courts of NSW and Federal Court of Australia for media defendants including Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Google and Harbour Radio. Recent matters include:
- TCN Channel Nine v Pahuja[2019] NSWCA 166
- KT v Google LLC[2019] NSWSC 1015
- Mohareb v Harbour Radio Pty Limited; Mohareb v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited; Mohareb v State of NSW[2019] NSWSC 270
- Noble v Phillips (No 3) [2019] NSWSC 110
- Parizian v Seven Network Limited [2018] NSWDC 296
Publications
- Melania Trump, Her Husband and US Defamation Law (June 2017), Communications Law Bulletin
- A Shot in the Arm for the Defence of Contextual Truth as Attention Turns to Particulars of Justification, (February 2017), Seminar given at UNSW
- The Defence of Contextual Truth and Hore Lacy: Struggling but Still Standing (March 2015)