Truth on Trial

Update: Dec 3, 2019

Some posts on this blog were removed in July 2019 as a pre-condition to an attempted settlement of defamation charges brought in 2017 against Nimbin GoodTimes newspaper and myself, Gillian Norman, (Gi Linda) for publication in October 2016 of  "The Truth About Bhula Bhula" and for authoring blogs exposing details of an alleged Mt Burrell land-share scam.

During 2018, two applications for interlocutory injunctions by the plaintiffs failed to force removal of the blogs by Court order. Final hearing of the defamation charge was completed on Sept 6, 2019, in NSW Supreme Court. Judgement by justice Fagan is reserved.

I author posts and administer the blogs on behalf of a group of investors who lost life-savings during 2014-16 as a result of reliance on representations by the plaintiffs.

More than 20 families who invested in Bhula Bhula land-share development claim to have been defrauded of over $2.24 million during 2014-17.

I filed a defence of justification asserting that the offending article and blogs are factually correct and justified to warn potential that others have previously lost life savings in the venture.

I claim the defamation action is a malicious prosecution, known in America as a SLAPP action: a "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation," commonly used to gag free speech and legally impede justice.

In related litigation, a professional negligence claim has been brought against Mullumbimby lawyer Wroth Wall, with a hearing listed for December 9 in NSW Supreme Court.

An appeal against a Federal Court decision, 20/6/19, to place the contested property into receivership with Vincent's liquidator, Steven Staatz, will next be heard on March 15, 2020, Brisbane Federal Court of Appeal.

Fleecing the asleeple