Seven drops legal case against TEN
The Seven Network has dropped its legal case against Network TEN today, but is proceeding against James Warburton.
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The Seven Network has dropped its legal case against Network TEN today, ahead of court proceedings due to begin on Monday.
But it is proceeding against former employee James Warburton.
“The Supreme Court’s action today vindicates TEN Holdings’ view that it had acted properly at all times and regarded the commencement of these proceedings by Seven as being without any foundation,” TEN said in a statement.
“TEN Holdings looks forward to Mr Warburton commencing with the company as its chief executive officer, as previously announced, on 14 July 2011.”
Warburton has lodged a lengthy affidavit about Seven with the court as part of his defence, which is due to become public via court proceedings.
This morning he also launched a cross-claim for damages against the network.
The case proceeds next week.
The court ordered Seven to pay all of TEN’s legal costs.
Source: smh.com.au
5 Responses
I don’t like seven dfretting nine
Methinks in the spirit of working together to secure the AFL deal may have had a little to do with it as well.
5 bucks says they settle 5minutes before the Judge enters the courtroom ? All this legal posturing is just that…scare tactics…they all know it costs 10K a day to run wigs in court and it will achievezip. he’s Gone baby Gone….and AA, the KK was FYI for harassment in the workplace, not disgruntlement…
How has a precedent been set? The cases were about 2 completely different things weren’t they?
One was to do with sexual harrassment, the other is a contract dispute isn’t it?
Not having a go, I am genuinely curious.
Ten must be breethinga sigh of relief. However the same is not the case for James Warburton. The question now is does he have enough money to fight this court cases get pretty rough. Although a precedent has been set with Kristy Kirk winning her case against David Jones and their former CEO.