Australia: Australia’s High Court overturned Court of Appeal's ruling on GOOGLE LLC v DEFTEROS

On 17 August 2022, the High Court of Australia overturned the previous ruling issued by the Victorian Court of Appeal, which found that Google was a publisher and had committed defamation by providing a link to an article about a Victorian criminal lawyer. In particular, the High Court found that the hyperlink that the search engine provides represents a tool to help users get to access websites and stressed that Google is not the publisher of the websites it links in search results and cannot be held liable for defamatory content.