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Fed: News Ltd didn't breach Trade Practice Act over Souths
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AAP General News (Australia)
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August 13, 2003
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Fed: News Ltd didn't breach Trade Practice Act over Souths
The High Court of Australia's ruled that News Limited did NOT breach
the Trade Practices
Act by excluding South Sydney from the National Rugby League competition
in 2000.
In a majority ruling, the High Court's allowed an appeal by News
Ltd against an earlier
finding in the Federal Court which found the company had breached
the Act.
Today's ruling was handed down in Adelaide and four of the five
High Court Justices
-- Chief Justice ANTHONY GLEESON, Justice MICHAEL MCHUGH, Justice
WILLIAM GUMMOW, Justice
MICHAEL KIRBY and Justice ...