Grigor-Scott v Jones FCAFC 14

Grigor-Scott v Jones FCAFC 14

Brief out­line from the FOC report:

On the appli­ca­tion of the respon­dent, Mr Jere­my Jones, a judge of the Court declared, on 2 Feb­ru­ary 2007, that the appel­lant, Mr Antho­ny Grig­or-Scott, had engaged in con­duct ren­dered unlaw­ful by Part IIA of the Racial Dis­crim­i­na­tion Act 1975 (Cth) (the Dis­crim­i­na­tion Act) by hav­ing pub­lished or allow­ing to be pub­lished, on the World Wide Web, a doc­u­ment described as “Bible Believ­ers’ Newslet­ter # 242”. His Hon­our also ordered Mr Grig­or-Scott to remove that doc­u­ment from the rel­e­vant web­site and restrained Mr Grig­or-Scott from pub­lish­ing or repub­lish­ing, to the pub­lic, that doc­u­ment, any mate­r­i­al with sub­stan­tial­ly sim­i­lar con­tent to that doc­u­ment and any oth­er mate­r­i­al that con­veys any of the fol­low­ing impu­ta­tions:

  • there is a seri­ous doubt that the holo­caust occurred;
  • it is unlike­ly that there were homi­ci­dal gas cham­bers at Auschwitz;
  • Jew­ish peo­ple who are offend­ed by and chal­lenge holo­caust denial are of lim­it­ed intel­li­gence; and
  • some Jew­ish peo­ple, for improp­er pur­pos­es, includ­ing finan­cial gain, exag­ger­at­ed the num­ber of Jews killed dur­ing World War II and the cir­cum­stances in which they were killed.

Grig­or-Scott v Jones [2008] FCAFC 14

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