Rinehart to view controversial episode

Gina Rinehart is seeking an early viewing of the second part of the Channel 9 show House of Hancock. Source: AAP

GINA Rinehart has won the right to an early viewing of the second episode of House of Hancock, the first step in a possible bid to stop the airing of the Nine Network mini-series.

JUSTICE Peter Garling ordered Nine on Friday evening to hand over a DVD of the episode, which is due to be broadcast on Sunday night.

It can be viewed only by the mining magnate and her lawyers.They must let Nine know whether they are going to make an application to stop the broadcast by 9.15pm on Friday.If such an application was made, the hearing would start at noon on Saturday, Justice Garling said.He said that based on promotional material and interviews about the episode, there was a real prospect the show would air statements that were not entirely accurate and perhaps even made up.He pointed to remarks made by entertainment reporter Peter Ford that the second episode made Ms Rinehart look like an "obsessed, vindictive shrew"."I am satisfied the plaintiff is entitled to see it," Justice Garling said.The decision comes after barrister Tom Blackburn SC made the urgent application in the Supreme Court, saying Ms Rinehart held concerns the episode contained injurious falsehoods, was defamatory and breached consumer law.He cited "inaccuracies" in the first instalment of the two-part drama that aired last weekend, which included a dramatised conversation between Ms Rinehart and her late father, Lang Hancock.He said Ms Rinehart's concerns were increased when an A Current Affair story on House of Hancock aired this week."(It) gave my client cause for enormous concern about the likely ... honesty of that program" and the "severity of falsehood about to be broadcast", Mr Blackburn said.The court heard House of Hancock producer Michael Cordell had said, "This is a big, explosive, Dallas-type drama and a lot of it we didn't have to make up.""Channel Nine knows that some of it is made up," Mr Blackburn told the court.He said Ms Rinehart wanted access to the show in order to determine the grounds of an urgent injunction that could prevent it going to air.If falsehoods and defamatory material were aired, Mr Blackburn said it could do great damage to the mining magnate's reputation and would likely have financial repercussions.But Nine Network barrister Peter Gray SC said material in the episode was already in the public domain and had been "exhaustively traversed".He said the granting of such orders would impinge on freedom of speech.

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