Mahmoud v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (No 2) [2017] NSWSC 763

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Mahmoud v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (No 2) [2017] NSWSC 763 Hearing dates: 2 June 2017 Decision date: 02 June 2017 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: McCallum J Decision: Plaintiff's recusal application refused Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application to have judge recuse herself on the grounds of actual bias – where judge had previously refused an application by the plaintiff – plaintiff alleging that earlier judgment discloses actual bias Cases Cited: Mahmoud v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2017] NSWSC 85 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Tosson Hussein Mahmoud (plaintiff) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (first defendant) Claire Aird (second defendant) Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd (third defendant) PT. Kompas Cyber Media (fourth defendant) Security Business Bank of Sand Diego (fifth defendant) Facebook, Inc. (sixth defendant) Facebook Australia (seventh defendant) Yahoo!7 Pty Ltd (eighth defendant) Google Australia Pty Ltd (ninth defendant) Yahoo! Inc. (tenth defendant) Yahoo!7 Pty Limited (eleventh defendant) Twitter Inc. (twelfth defendant) YouTube, LLC (thirteenth defendant) Veooz.com (fourteenth defendant) Abix (fifteenth defendant) ANTARA (sixteenth defendant) Bakrie & Brothers Corporation (seventeenth defendant) CT Corp (eighteenth defendant) Emtek (nineteenth defendant) PT Komopas Gramedia Group (twentieth defendant) PT. Niskala Media Tenggara Company (twenty-first defendant) Media Antarkota Jaya, PT (twenty-second defendant) Sharp Corporation Headquarters (twenty-third defendant) Media Troup (twenty-fourth defendant) The MNC Media Group (twenty-fifth defendant) The Tempo Media Group (twenty-sixth defendant) Abdurizal Bakrie's Visi Asia Media Group (twenty-seventh defendant) BBC Indonesia (twenty-eighth defendant) The British Broadcasting Commission (twenty-ninth defendant) Fairfax Digital Australia & New Zealand Pty Ltd (thirtieth defendant) Representation: Counsel: Plaintiff self-represented L Barnett (first, second and eleventh defendants to amended statement of claim) L Norman, solicitor (third and thirtieth defendants to amended statement of claim)