Pollster Gary Morgan has won the first round in a battle for access to his Collins Street offices, after a court overturned a dramatic weekend eviction by his landlord, a property syndicator backed by the wealthy Liberman family.

Vietnamese Newspaper 24.3.2010 on Defamation case of Vo v Nguyen

A former Melbourne doctor was awarded $105,000 in damages for defamation yesterday after a five-year controversy  sparked by false allegations that he helped murder his cousin's husband.

A bank manager who stole $131,240 and fed it all to poker machines was in a dream like state while playing them, a court heard yesterday.