Google won a reprieve Friday in a defamation fight with a Sydney businessman in Australia after the New South Wales Supreme Court agreed to temporarily halt an order directing the tech giant be charged with contempt for failing to promptly take down defamatory reviews.

At a procedural hearing to set out the timetable for the ongoing litigation, Justice Desmond Fagan said the contempt order should be stayed ahead of a hearing on July 26 about whether that order should have been made, according to media reports.