Geoffrey Rush defamation appeal $2.9m 'manifestly excessive', newspaper says
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Sydney’s Daily Telegraph says the damages awarded are out of line with other recent high-profile cases
The $2.9m in damages awarded to the Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush in his defamation case against Sydney’s Daily Telegraph were “manifestly excessive” and out of line with other recent high-profile cases, the newspaper’s lawyers have argued.
The Telegraph through its parent company, Nationwide News, began its appeal on Monday against the federal court justice Michael Wigney’s ruling that the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper had defamed Rush by alleging he “engaged in inappropriate behaviour” during a Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear in 2015. Continue reading...
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