The Daily Telegraph’s parent body, Nationwide News, has lost its appeal against the Geoffrey Rush defamation case’s verdict.
The Australian federal court upheld its original decision today (July 2), ordering that the news organisation pay the actor $2.87million AUD (roughly £1.6million) in damages.
The sum is the largest defamation payout awarded to an individual in Australian legal history.The case relates to a story published by The Daily Telegraph in 2017.
The article alleged that Rush behaved inappropriately towards co-star Eryn Jean Norvill during The Sydney Theatre Company’s 2015-16 production of King Lear.Geoffrey Rush commenced proceedings to sue Nationwide News in late 2017, terming the article’s allegations “spurious”.In April.
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