A Today Tonight broadcast about property investment has been found to have misled viewers, in a landmark ruling by the Federal Court.
In late 2003 and early 2004 Seven’s Today Tonight broadcast segments about a property investment training program known as the Wildly Wealthy Women.
The segment falsely claimed one of the women running the program was a millionaire and another owned 60 properties.
The Seven Network used the publisher's defence - that it believed the claims to be true, but in a landmark ruling the Federal Court has rejected this.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) - which brought the case - says the court found Today Tonight breached the trade practices act by uncritically adopting the claims made by Wildly Wealthy Women.