The Sydney newspaper’s parent company is appealing against the federal court’s ruling that it defamed Rush, and the decision to award the actor $2.9m
Lawyers for the Daily Telegraph have called the decision to award Geoffrey Rush $2.9m in damages after a series of defamatory articles about the Oscar-winning actor “extraordinary and absurd”, and based on “uncertain inferences from inexact proofs”.
On Monday the Telegraph through its parent company, Nationwide News, began its appeal against 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.
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