In part one of these two videos I talk through some of the technical points of defamation law in Australia. In part two I look at how the law has played out in six cases.
I am not a lawyer. None of this content is a substitute for advice from a qualified legal professional.
I am, however, a successful defamation defendant. I won a defamation case brought by Universal Medicine cult leader, Serge Benhayon. I represented myself for over a year without a solicitor due to lack of funds.
From May 2014, Serge Benhayon and his Universal Medicine associates published profuse false and defamatory allegations about me on social media. In response to legal complaints from me, the defamatory articles published on UM websites have been removed, and Benhayon and seven colleagues who published the majority of those have published apologies.
The Universal Medicine cult recently launched their own Esoteric ‘facts’ site to venerate Serge Benhayon, persuade themselves they’re not a cult and falsely defame critics. Just as their One Unified Truth has no relationship with facts, cult propaganda is called ‘true journalism’. On Planet Serge victims don’t exist, sleaze and dishonesty are sold as ‘integrity’, and they’ll say anything in the name of self love to avoid our questions. In response to their Esoteric versions of my anti-cult and health accountability activism I posted some corrections on the site. Surprise surprise, none were published.
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Esther Rockett 