Court throws out pro-Israel group’s bid to refer journalists and editors for contempt over Antoinette Lattouf case
by Amanda Meade Media correspondent from on (#6YQNC)
Editors, reporters, and lawyers for Nine newspapers were among eight named in pro-Israel group application dismissed by federal court
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An application by a pro-Israel group to refer editors, reporters and lawyers from Nine Entertainment for contempt proceedings has been dismissed by the federal court.
The editor of the Age, Patrick Elligett, and the Sydney Morning Herald, Bevan Shields, and two Age reporters, Michael Bachelard and Calum Jaspan, were among the eight individuals named in the application that alleged the newspapers had breached a suppression order made by the judge in the Antoinette Lattouf unlawful termination case.
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