Litigation
The Church of Scientology has been involved in a number of lawsuits and threatened legal action during its five decade history in Australia.
- A suit was brought against Anderson and his assistant Gordon Just who produced the Anderson Report, in 1971. The citations in the Victorian Reports are: Hubbard Association of Scientologists -v- Anderson (1971) VR 788; Hubbard Association of Scientologists v. Anderson (1972) VR 340 ; Hubbard Association of Scientologists International v Anderson and Just (No 2) (1972) VR 577. The Victorian Parliament passed special legislation to give the two immunity from these writs.
- Scientology also litigated against the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, which is Australia's equivelent of the CIA.
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