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Unemployed couple can't pay Nine's million-dollar legal bill
Kate McClymont
By Kate McClymont
29 October 2018

Mouhammad and Pamela Tabbaa are facing a million-dollar legal bill after they lost a major defamation action against the Nine Network over a 60 Minutes program which accused the couple of allowing the kidnapping of their 13-year old daughter Nadia, holding her against her will in Syria where she was forced to marry a cousin 15 years her senior.

In December, after only a day’s deliberation, a Supreme Court jury found that the claims made in the 60 Minutes program, titled “Forced Marriage: An Extraordinary Story of Kidnap, Survival, Escape and Hiding,” were substantially true.

Justice Des Fagan was scathing about the Tabbaas’ case and, after the jury delivered its verdict, he described Mrs Tabbaa’s evidence as “just absolutely appalling”.

The judge suggested the court should infer that the Tabbaas “colluded” with their son Omar “for the purpose of attempting to extract a damages award from what they perceive to be a wealthy media defendant”.

Mrs Tabbaa was ordered to pay Nine Network’s costs on an indemnity basis because the judge held she gave evidence that she knew to be false.

Indemnity costs are higher than usual costs orders and awarded in circumstances such as when a judge determines that there has been an abuse of process.

When the unemployed couple, who receive government benefits, lodged appeals based on a number of points including that the trial judge was biased, the Nine Network requested that the court order them to pay $173,000 in security for costs before being allowed to proceed with their appeals.

“It is not disputed that Mr and Mrs Tabbaa are impecunious” and do not have the means to pay the current costs orders let alone “an adverse costs order if their appeals fail,” Court of Appeal judge Richard White held last week.

He noted that Channel Nine’s lawyers estimated that the network would be entitled to recover costs in excess of $1 million from the Tabbaas’ initial defamation loss.

However, Justice White declined to make a security for costs order against the Tabbaas should their appeals be unsuccessful.

The judge said that “however weak Mrs Tabbaa’s case might appear to be” it could not be said that the appeals could be “characterised as hopeless or unarguable”.

The 60 Minutes program, broadcast in 2014, detailed the Tabbaas’ daughter Nadia’s claims that in 2002 she was 13 years old when she was tricked into going overseas. She was eventually taken to Syria where she was held against her will by her father’s relatives and forced to marry a cousin 15 years her senior.

She escaped on her 18th birthday with the assistance of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

During the court case Nadia Tabbaa testified that while living in Sydney from age eight to 13, she was regularly beaten with a belt and a kettle cord by her older brother Omar, who attempted to impose restrictions on her clothing and contact with friends.

The jury found that Mr Tabbaa had been violent towards his own wife Pamela who had fled from Jordan to Australia with her five children. Other imputations that were found to be substantially true were that Mr Tabbaa not only “bashed, beat and terrorised his wife for 20 years” he also “permitted the beating of his daughter by his son [Omar]”.

The jury determined that Mrs Tabbaa assisted in the abduction of her daughter and conspired with her husband’s family to keep her daughter in Syria for years against her daughter’s will.

Mrs Tabbaa had been supportive of her daughter’s interview with 60 Minutes, providing the program with photos and witnessing the exclusive agreement her daughter had signed with the current affairs program, the jury heard. In cross-examination of Nadia Tabbaa it was put to her that her mother’s signature had been forged.

The trial judge noted that Nadia Tabbaa was at times “visibly distressed in the witness box” at having to relive her experiences.

He said her distress at her original suffering at the hands of her mother was exacerbated by her mother’s attempt to “recover damages by denying what occurred.”

“This couple, apparently driven together (the Court might infer) by pecuniary wants and the designs of their son Omar, have demonstrated that they are prepared to say whatever has to be said to get the result they need from the Courts,” said Justice Fagan.

A date for the appeal is yet to be set.

I'm guessing bwian will be in deep denial

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deport them and all their muslim relations

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https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/b ... r/43462562

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Europe’s Muslims hate the West. Young men like the perpetrators of the Brussels attacks refuse to embrace the social codes of Belgian life.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andr ... 0c6a6a31d9

AN Adelaide Islamic preacher calls for all Buddhists and Hindus to be killed and describes Australian soldiers as "Crusader pigs" in an online video. Sheikh Sharif Hussein ... also attacks Jews, former prime minister John Howard, US President Barack Obama, and Australian troops. “Tens of thousands of women were raped in Iraq, by the American and British crusader troops, aided by the Australian troops,” he says. “The Australian participation in the Crusaders’ war on Iraq is 6 per cent. This is out of approximately 365,000 Crusader pigs sent to Iraq, during the term of (Mr Howard), Allah’s wrath be upon him. “Listen, oh Obama, oh enemy of Allah, you who kiss the shoes and feet of the Jews. Listen!"

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As you can see we have these Islamists nutters here too. It's a global phenomenon bwian and par for the course in many Islamic Countries... many believe the Conspiranut rubbish they are fed about the West and many are simply rabid nutjobs. They live within our society. They live in many western countries. We allow them to come here people like you berate us for not letting them or wanting them here.

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It appears my first effort was removed by BO for some unexplained reason. Here we go again. It isn't insulting. It maybe annoying but it is truthful.

Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Another thread devoted to Islamophobia. Really, why do we need all these parallel threads? What a way to torture the electrons. Tut, tut.

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It appears my first effort was removed by BO for some unexplained reason. Here we go again. It isn't insulting. It maybe annoying but it is truthful.

Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Another thread devoted to Islamophobia. Really, why do we need all these parallel threads? What a way to torture the electrons. Tut, tut.

Yes Brian your "tutt tutt", "dearie dearie me" and "Islamophobia" comment was removed as it had no content on topic. If you can add something on topic ... fine! Otherwise tone down your Islamophilia.

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It appears my first effort was removed by BO for some unexplained reason. Here we go again. It isn't insulting. It maybe annoying but it is truthful.

Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Another thread devoted to Islamophobia. Really, why do we need all these parallel threads? What a way to torture the electrons. Tut, tut.

Yes Brian your "tutt tutt", "dearie dearie me" and "Islamophobia" comment was removed as it had no content on topic. If you can add something on topic ... fine! Otherwise tone down your Islamophilia.

I do not love Muslims. I tolerate them, BO, which is more than many appear to here with unending fear of them.

My comment was just as valid as some one apparently declaring I am a troll or someone proclaiming that I have a "psychiatric disorder" and quoting the Urban Dictionary to prove it. Don't worry, your secret is safe. You fear the "other" the "unknown", don't you, BO?

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There there Brian. Pats you on the head. Do you take meds? If not I think you should.