Oscar winner to be awarded full $2.9m in damages after judges reject all publisher’s grounds of appeal
The Daily Telegraph will have to pay the actor Geoffrey Rush a record $2.9m in damages after the Sydney tabloid lost its appeal against a historic defamation ruling.
The newspaper and its publisher, Nationwide News, had challenged a federal court decision from April 2019 that found claims conveyed in two of its news articles from 2017 that the Oscar winner had behaved inappropriately towards a colleague were not credible.
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