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GENERAL DIVISION . ) °
BETWEEN
'ROBERT JAMES PARISH ' Appellant
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PUBLISHING AND BROADCASTING LIMITED and GENERAL TELEVISION CORPORATION PTY. LIMITED
o Respondents , Coram: RILEY, Jd. ; JUDGMENT : HIS HONOUR: , In this matter I would have preferred to prepare
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a written judgment but I thought it best in the circumstances as there is some urgency in the matter and as the Christmas break is upon us to deliver an oral judgment now. I hope that in doing so I will not give the impression that I am not doing justice to all arguments that were addressed to me.
This is an application under section 80 of the Trade Practices Act for an injunction. The applicant is Robert James Parish and the respondents are two companies, Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and General Television Corporation Pty. Limited.
On 16 December I made an interim order, operative up to and including 19 December, restraining the respondents
and each of them from engaging in the following conduct:
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° The first respondent is the proprietor of ctelevision station Channel 9 in Sydney. - It was formerly named Television Corporation Limited. The second respondent is the proprietor of television station Channel 9 in Melbourne ' and is a subsidiary of the first respondent. Both are members of a group at the head of which is Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, of which company Mr. K. F. B. Packer is chairman and managing director.
These proceedings arose out of what in argument was referred to as a "cricket war" that has for some time been and still is being waged with considerable publicity between, on the one hand, those conducting and promoting a series of cricket matches in Australia under the name of World Series
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