Greg Ogle
Greg Ogle worked as a senior campaigner for The Wilderness Society for eight years, including four years as Legal Coordinator.
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The Gunns and 20 other law suits
In December 2004, forestry giant Gunns Ltd sued Bob Brown, The Wilderness Society and eighteen other environmentalists as a result of the campaign to protect Tasmania’s forests. During the next five years, Gunns suffered a series of legal losses and capitulated against many of the defendants, paying them over $1m in costs. It was left with an expensive rump of a case against a handful of defendants.
This book tells the inside story of the defence of the Gunns 20 case and of a number of other similar, but no less dangerous, law suits.
In a personal account of more than a decade defending so-called "SLAPP suits" over the Hindmarsh Island bridge, battery hens and the Tasmanian forests, this book tells the history of the cases and their impact on the defendants and the community. It illustrates the effect of such litigation on free speech and political protest, and makes a call for law reform to ensure that these incursions on civil liberties never happen again.
150 x 210 mm, 130 pages, paperback.
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